“The fact that we don’t ‘burn’ doesn’t necessarily mean that the situation is simple”, acknowledged the Minister, Nail Magdeev, during the briefing with the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan

The Minister started his speech before the journalists with statistics. As of May 13, 6,658 fires have been registered on the territory of Russia on the area of 727 thousand ha. In 2014, 91 fires were registered in the Volga Federal District on the territory of 87 ha in Bashkortostan, the Perm Territory, Nizhny Novgorod, Kirov and Ulyanovsk districts. Within the same period last year 72 fires were registered on the area of 59 ha. Nail Magdeev reminded of sad periodicity: every four years fires were registered on the territory of the forest fund of the Republic of Tatarstan due to dry summer. The Minister told about preventative measures aimed at prevention of forest fires.

   During the briefing the Minister summarized the results of the Day of forest planting that took place on April 26 and also told about his trip to Bakhchisaray, where memorable parkways were established consisting of seedlings brought from Tatarstan.