As per the Decree of the Russian President, 2017 is the Year of Specially Protected Natural Reservations

Nature reserve fund of the Republic of Tatarstan includes 171 specially protected natural reservations in total area of ​​165.7 hectares, including 166 objects of regional nature reserve fund in area of ​​126.8 hectares: 26 state nature sanctuaries and 140 natural monuments. In 2015, the materials of integrated ecological survey of sites in the Bugulminsky District, justifying the assignment to these territories the legal status of regional specially protected natural reservations, have got the positive state ecological expert evaluation.

To effect in 2017 in the Republic of the Year of Specially Protected Reservations, the Ministry of Forestry of Tatarstan has elaborated an action plan, aimed at preserving biological diversity and implementing the state program “Environmental protection, Reproduction and Use of Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan for 2014 – 2020”.