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Planting of trees was conducted in the territory of the nature reserve, near Shuban village in cooperation with employees of veterinary station. 150 pieces of planting stock was planted.

A republican environmental oriented campaign “A Week of Forest – 2017” started in Agryzskiy district within the framework of the Year of Ecology in the Russian Federation, Year of Ecology and Public Space in the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as in order to develop careful attitude toward forests, to attract the public attention to the issues of forest resources reproduction and increasing. More than 200 people (45 organizations) took active part in native town greening. All planting materials for the town, schools and settlements of Agryzskiy district were dug out from the nursery and delivered to the place of planting by efforts of Agryzskiy forestry. There are pine, linden, birch, quickbeam, lilac, juniper among the prepared planting stock. During the whole week from October 09, 2017 to October 15, 2017 planting in forests, town and rural settlements will be continued.

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.