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The employee of the Ministry of Forestry of Tatarstan Niyaz Khabirov – the Head of the Biodiversity Department – took part in Crimea in the seminar on “Sharing of experience in recreational use of forests”. The event was organized by the State Committee for Forestry and Hunting of the Republic of Crimea in the framework of the Agreement on trade and economic, scientific and technological and social and cultural cooperation between the Republic of Crimea and the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as in the framework of the Agreement on Cooperation between the State Committee for Forestry and Hunting of the Republic of Crimea and the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan. In the conference the forestry experts of the Chechen Republic, the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Republic of Karelia took part too. As part of the seminar, the forest industry representatives got familiar with the facilities of the use of forests for recreational purposes in the Kuibyshevskoye Forestry, examined facilities of the Yalta mountain-forest nature reserve (Yaltinskaya Cave, Ai-Petri picks), as well as Altushinskoye Forestry (“Nikulin’s Walnut” natural monument) and Sudakskoye Forestry (Novy Svet Nature Sanctuary).

In the conference room of the Cabinet of Ministers of Tatarstan a briefing “Preparation to and Holding of the Traditional Environmental Campaign – the Day of Tree Planting” was held. The Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Almas Nazirov told reporters on the role of forests in nature and human life, on what areas the young trees are going to be planted on October 1, 2016. In the report Almas Nazirov noted that every year more and more volunteers join the “Day of Tree Planting” and appealed everyone to take an active part in the autumn stage of the campaign and plant the own tree. The forestries will provide the planting material free of charge.

In compliance with the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan No.377-r dated 09.03.2016, on October 1, 2016 the traditional republican environmental campaign “The Day of Tree Planting” will be held. The autumn tree planting organized by the Ministry will be held in the territory of the Vysokogorskoye district forestry and Matyushinskoye district forestry of the Prigorodnoye Forestry, in the Privolzhsky district of Kazan city – Vakhitovsky Square – and in all municipal districts of the Republic of Tatarstan. The Ministry requested to the state agencies, departments, and educational institutions to support the campaign. The specially assigned forestry experts will assist and consult those wishing in planting. The tree planting will start at 9.00 a.m.

The photographic report indicates the assembly point.