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16
October 2017
Monday

Employees of State integrated natural reserve “Baltasinskiy” in cooperation with schoolchildren of Karaduganskiy secondary educational school and Karaduganskiy rural settlement planted seedlings in the area nearby of Karaduvan village. By joint efforts the enthusiasts planted 1000 seedlings of pine-trees. Friendly planting measures were followed by clearing of the territory and water protection areas of the Shoshma river – a nature monument of regional significance.

Within the framework of the Year of Ecology and Public spaces in 2017, as well as within the “Live, Forest!” campaign a “Week of Forest - 2017” was held in State Public Institution “Tetyushskiy forestry”. Events on tree planting were held in the territory of the forestry; clearing of the areas of the forest fund from household wastes and garbage were conducted in the territory of the municipal district. During the campaign 2 hectares of forest fund were cleared of garbage, 5 hectares were littered up, 7.8 thousand pieces of trees were planted in the forest fund in the area of 1.8 hectares and 1.2 thousand pieces of trees were planted in the territory of the district. Most enterprises of the district – kindergartens, schools, territorial self-government etc. took active part in the events.

Last Saturday, within the framework of "A Week of Forest" campaign, 5 thousand coniferous trees were planted and the territory of Russian-German Switzerland was cleared of solid household waste in the Vakhitovsky district of the city of Kazan. Employees of the Ministry and subordinated institutions, the republic's pension fund, students of the Forestry Faculty of Kazan Agrarian University, schoolchildren of school No. 181 of the city of Kazan took part in the campaign.

The Human Rights Defender in the Republic of Tatarstan, Sariya Kharisovna Saburskaya also planted her own tree. "Environmental safety is very important for our population. This campaign, held annually in Tatarstan, allows solving environmental problems and participation of the population in such events - an important component in preserving our ecology", said S.Kh. Saburskaya.

The acting Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan, Emir Nurtdinovich Bedertdinov, in his speech to the media, noted that this event is the highlight of "A Week of Forest" environmental oriented campaign, during which 1 million young trees were planted in Tatarstan on a total area of 350 hectares, 60 tons of solid waste were scavenged, 300 cubic meters of dead and fallen trees were collected. "Environmental protection actions are aimed at development of a careful attitude to nature, forest, attracting public attention to the problems of conservation, reproduction and augmentation of forest resources. I would like to thank everyone who joined the environmental campaigns - it's more than 30 thousand people of the republic", said E.N. Bedertdinov.

It is also worth noting that the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan is holding an environmental action "Clean forests of Tatarstan" since September 15, and it will last until November 15.


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