More than 1000 inhabitants of Tatarstan participated in “Clean Forests of Tatarstan” campaign

Last Saturday a United Day of Forestland Cleaning was held within the framework of environmental campaign “Clean Forests of Tatarstan”. Employees of various ministries and authorities, lecturers and students, school children, media representatives took part in the forest areas cleaning event. In the vicinity of Kazan city the campaign was run in two areas: Derbyshki township and Borovoye Matyushino. 120 m3 of household wastes, dead-tree and wind-thrown trees were gathered and scavenged by the campaigners.

It should be noted that spring stage of the “Clean forests of Tatarstan” campaign started on April 25, 2017. During this period 350 hectares of forest reserves of Tatarstan became cleaner, 2750 m3 of garbage were collected and scavenged. Besides, 92 information boards, banner headlines, pavilions for leisure, located in the forest area and along auto roads were repaired. 488 forest area leaseholders, 133 enterprises and 15 gardeners’ partnerships were active participants of the campaign.

The spring stage of traditional environmental campaign “Clean forests of Tatarstan” will continue till June 25.