NEWS

A landfill with an area of 62 sq.m. was identified on the territory of the Kirovsky district of Kazan. The violation of environmental requirements in the treatment of industrial and consumer waste became known during a commission railway detour from the station Camp to the station Admiralteyskaya Sloboda.

The fact that the Kamenka River suddenly turned white was reported to the Central Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology by concerned citizens. For the purpose of inspection, inspectors and specialists from the Central Department of Environmental Supervision went to the site.

Today, on the Tatarstan-24 TV channel, in the Clean Tatarstan program, we talk about the Clean Air project of the Ministry of Ecology. 

An environmental campaign for the charitable release of sterlet juveniles was held in the village of Betki in the Tukayevsky district. The juveniles were delivered from the fish hatchery in the Nizhny Novgorod region using a special transport, the equipment of which allows maintaining the necessary conditions for the life support of fish in containers. 

Shining ideas and a youthful look at the usual garbage containers. A unique idea was presented by a Russian student as part of an interactive exhibition.

The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan hosted a regular meeting of the interdepartmental working group on air quality in the northern part of Kazan with the participation of the head of the department Alexander Shadrikov, representatives of the Volga-Kama Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor, the Office of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare in the Republic of Tatarstan, the Executive Committee of Kazan, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. 

To date, during Operation Clean Air, employees of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, together with the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Interregional Territorial Directorate of Rostransnadzor in the Volga Federal District, have checked 1,936 vehicles.

As we wrote earlier, the issue of unauthorized landfills is the most popular among the environmental issues of concern to the population of the republic. A special place here is given to the maintenance of territories directly adjacent to residential areas.

Since the beginning of the year, the Republican Public Environmental Reception has received 5,191 appeals from citizens.

The second conference on the conservation of the snow leopard was held in the Maiminsky district of the Altai Republic.