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Bicycles and tourist tents are waiting for the Tatarstanians. Prizes will be played out in Kazan, on the central venue of the cleanup. Everyone who has a special flyer of a participant in eco-protection campaign #ECOspring2017 will be able to take part. The flyer can be obtained by support city and district in the general cleaning. It is only necessary to go to the cleanup, take part in an event to clean the territories of debris, inform the environmentalists of the territorial administration (phone numbers are listed below) and become one of the bidders for the main prize. Winners will be determined by the specified seven-digit number, so the flyer must be kept until May 31, 2017.

Today, within the sanitary-ecological two-month period in the Kamsko-Ustinsky district of Tatarstan, state inspectors of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan inspected the area. In the Tenkovsky rural settlement, inspectors of the Zavolzhsky territorial administration found 6 sites of unauthorized waste disposal.

Students of Timashevsk school of Leninogorsk district took part in the ecological Olympiad. The educational event for schoolchildren was held by the staff of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. The desire to compete for the title of the best experts of nature was expressed by three teams: “Ecologists”, “Owners of the Planet” and “Water Patrol”. The participants of the Olympiad guessed crossword puzzles, read poems about nature, developed projects for the improvement of the environment. 

Pupils of kindergarten No. 21 in Almetyevsk took part in an ecological lesson. The event for children was conducted by the staff of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan together with representatives of the Department of Ecology in Almetyevsky District. At the interactive lesson, ecologists told preschool children about a variety of water bodies of the native land, water properties and its most important functions. “We can not live a single day without clean water. 

On the streets of Arsk, representatives of a team of young traffic inspectors organized an environmental action. They handed out to car owners the memos about the correct behaviour in nature, called passers-by to take care of the environment and cleanliness. The event was held jointly with the specialists of the Northern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. The ecological action was carried out with the purpose of attracting attention of people of Arsk to issues of environment. 

Bugulma, Tchaikovskogo street, 20. The landfill of household waste is spread over an area of ​​20 sq.m. A heap of rubbish was discovered by a public inspector. He made an inspection report, and passed it to the inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan. In the course of the administrative investigation it was established that the local management company allowed contaminating the territory by household rubbish.

The criminal case against “black diggers” was instituted under Article 246 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of the rules for the protection of the environment during the execution of works”). In the territory of the Privolzhsky district of Kazan, in the water protection zone of the Kuibyshev reservoir near the village of Dubky-2, extraction was conducted without a license for the use of subsoil.

Today, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan awarded the employees with the badges of the All-Russian Physical Culture and Sports Complex “Ready for Labor and Defense” (GTO in Russian). The owner of the golden badge “GTO” is Minister Farid Abduganiev. With the golden badges were also awarded:

- Insaf Galiullin, Deputy Minister for investment and innovation activities;

- Aivaz Zakuanov, Assistant Minister;

- Albert Shubin, head of the department of environmental protection;

- Shamil Salimgareev, head of the department of civil service and personnel;

- Tatyana Akhmanova, head of the department of geology of hydrocarbon materials;

The campaign “Green tram” was held these days in Nizhnekamsk. The students of the Children’s Ecological and Biological Center, specialists of the Zakamsky Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan took part in it. The event is timed to the Year of Ecology and Public Spaces in the republic. The participants of the campaign held flash mobs with dances, and urged people to carry out sanitary cleaning of the adjacent territories.

“Waste to income”: a campaign to collect recyclable materials was held in Nizhnekamsk. For four hours the residents collected 3 tons of waste paper, more than 20 kilograms of plastic and tin cans. All collected products will be sent to the organizers of the campaign in Naberezhnye Chelny for further pressing and recycling. The purpose of the campaign is not only to recycle paper and plastic waste and to save a valuable natural resource, but also to attract the people attention to the problem of waste recycling.