“A Week of Forest”

Last Saturday, on October 7, a republican environmental oriented campaign “A Week of Forest” started. About 30 thousand residents of the republic, among them employees of the Executive office of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan, Deputies of State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, ministries, authorities, judicial bodies, lecturers and students of educational institutions joined the campaign. Enthusiasts planted trees, cleared out forest fund territories from household waste, fallen and dry wood.

The key event in the city of Kazan was conducted in “Vakhitovskiy” garden square, where traditionally 400 pieces of fir-trees were planted. Aleksey Pesoshin – a Prime-Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan participated in this action.

Memorable parkways appeared in all municipal districts of the republic. Fir-tree parkway of Justice was founded in Vysokogorskiy park “Zakazanye”. 120 servants of Themis took part in planting.

It should be noted that this campaign has been conducted by initiative of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan since 2010. Tree planting is conducted twice a year, in spring and autumn. In spring 3.5 million pieces of young trees were planted in the area of 400 hectares by efforts of foresters and residents of the republic. As the Acting Minister of Forestry E.N.Bedertdinov notes, Tatarstan is sparsely forested region of the Russian Federation, with forest land percentage of 17.5 that is why it is necessary to increase this number year by year. Such campaigns are held for the purposes of attraction of the public attention to the issues of forest resources preservation, reproduction, as well as within the framework of All-Russian campaign “Live, Forest!”. “A Week of Forest” will last till October 16, 2017.