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The population of snow leopards is important and must be restored. This was said today on a perspective international platform for the implementation of joint environmental projects on the conservation of rare species of animals within the framework of the IX International Economic Summit “Russia - Islamic World: KazanSummit 2017”. Reducing genetic diversity and immunity in animals, increasing susceptibility to infectious and parasitic diseases, and reducing the ability of animals to reproduce. All these factors are of concern to specialists, said Rustam Rabadanov, deputy director of the Department of State Policy and Regulation in the Sphere of Environmental Protection of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia.

Collect waste paper and send money to charity. With this in mind, the students of the Kazan school No. 18 held an environmental action in the framework of #ECOspring2017. Schoolchildren together with their parents collected 27,622 kilograms of waste paper, and the money received from the waste paper was sent to the Kazan Zoobotanical garden for the care of newborn deer. Inspectors of the Central Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan supported the children in good deeds.

“Global distribution of processes of anthropogenic eutrophication of water bodies: problems and solutions”. The conference with a complex title reveals questions of a global scale – fight against blue-green algae. Cyanotoxins, their variety, and, the main question – how to fight? Ecologists, biologists, scientists from all over the world shared their experience in Tatarstan today. “The problem of water bodies pollution, eutrophication is relevant for the whole world. Therefore, we invited not only representatives of Russian science, instead, the conference is international. Water bodies protection is extremely important for the whole world, and Tatarstan has something to say. The ecological situation is stable, and today we can take a number of measures to prevent.

Those who are not indifferent to nature are invited to participate in the environmental action “Reservoirs cleaning says.” The nature protection event is held by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan in conjunction with the regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society in RT. During the action, there will be clean-ups to clean water bodies of the republic:

Kids of preschool center No. 2 “Teremok” of Aznakaevo district took part in an ecological lesson devoted to the rules of safe behaviour in nature. The event for children was conducted by specialists of the Priiksky territorial administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. During the lesson, ecologists told the children about flora and fauna of the native land, unique natural resources of the republic, interaction of human with the environment.

On May 18, within the framework of the VII St. Petersburg International Legal Forum, a round table “Law on Subsoil – 25 Years of Development: Results and Prospects” will be held. The event was organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation in conjunction with the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use. The round table is timed to the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Law of the Russian Federation “On Subsoil”.

Tetyush Kindergarten “Skazka” claims their fifth Green Flag. In the preschool center, the VII All-Russian Festival of Pedagogical Ideas of an Environmental Focus was held today within the framework of the International Program “Eco-Schools/Green Flag”. Children demonstrated their ecological knowledge, showed ECO fashion, and performed for the jury a tale “Clogging the environment”. Within the framework of the festival, a round table was held. Presentations were made by representatives of Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Kaliningrad region and the city of Petrozavodsk.

School students of grades 5-10 who are interested in ecology and biology will be able to deepen their knowledge in this fieldduring the summer holidays (May 29 - June 9). ECO-classes will be held in the City children’s ecological and biological center of Kazan under the urban workshop “School of young ecologist”.

The program “School of young ecologist” covers the following directions: botany, zoology, generalecology, project activities, and consists of two sections:

1. Theory–acquaintance with

To strengthen the work to eliminate identified landfills. This task is facing municipalities today. As of May 15, more than 85% of the unauthorized waste disposal sites identified by state inspectors of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan and other environmental authorities have been removed. Another violation was discovered today by ecologists during the helicopter flight. A resident of the Kamsko-Ustinsky district of Tatarstan discharged garbage into the field.

Over the years, from May 15 to June 15 in Russia environmental actions are held, under the motto “United days of protection of small rivers and reservoirs” The initiator of this environmental action was the Network of Russian Rivers - a voluntary association founded on the initiative of the Volga social movement “Let’s help the river”. The organization includes more than 100 public environmental organizations from 23 regions of Russia.