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The briefing, held in the Government House of the Republic of Tatarstan, was attended by the Acting Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Emir Bedertdinov and Deputy Minister of Ecology of Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Fayaz Shakirov. During the event, the journalists were told about the environmental oriented campaigns held in the republic. E.N.Bedertdinov noted that the campaign "A Week of Forest" is holding until October 16: "To date, 800 thousand pieces of planting material have been planted in the republic in the total area of 320 hectares. In addition, 50 tons of household waste was transported from the forest fund and 200 cubic meters of dry and fallen trees were gathered". Also, the speaker added that on October 13, in the city of Kazan, planting of young seedlings on the area of 3 hectares, and cleaning of the territory of Russian-German Switzerland, with participation of students and schoolchildren will take place. Also, the Acting Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan noted the importance of the republican campaign "Clean forests of Tatarstan": "To maintain the favorable sanitary condition of forests and in order to comply with the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan of 31.03.2017 from September 15 to November 15, an environmental campaign "Clean forests of Tatarstan" will be held. In spring period, within this campaign the cleaning of the territories along motor roads and federal and regional routes, gathering and transportation of solid waste, dead wood and fallen trees, in the amount of 3 thousand cubic meters were conducted" - said E.N. Bedertdinov.

Deputy Minister of Ecology of Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Fayaz Shakirov told about the ecological education of the population: "Within the framework of the Year of Ecology and Public Spaces and the campaign #ECOspring-2012, a contest among kindergartens and schools of the Republic "100 green corners" was held. Top-100 the most active kindergartens and schools from the municipal districts and cities of the republic received planting material for creation of household plots. Young rowans, apple-trees, cherry-trees, pear-trees, lilacs, currant and gooseberry decorated the territory of one hundred kindergartens and schools of the republic. The aim of the contest was to develop the children's interest in studying the nature of their native land and fostering a careful attitude toward the environment in children. This year is distinguished with children's ecological events which are also close to the theme of forest and careful attitude towards it, which took place in 5 cities of the republic (Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Yelabuga, Nizhnekamsk, Almetyevsk) in support of the population of the symbol of the republic - snow leopard. More than 5,000 families participated there".

Within the framework of the Year of Ecology and the Year of specially protected natural areas a republican environmental oriented campaign “A day of forest planting” was held in Aznakayevskiy municipal district on October 6, 2017. The experts of state nature reserve “Chatyr-Tau” by support of district administration planted trees along the banks of natural monument Sterli River. The whole administration and all organizations of Aznakayevo city (about 600 people) participated in the campaign. More than 6000 transplants of poplar, oak, rowan were planted. The campaign was aimed at stopping of Sterli River bank caving, which would result in flora and fauna preservation.

Sterli River – is a natural monument of regional significance. Its length is 53.3 km. Sterli flowing through continental plate of Bugulminsko-Belebeyevskiy highlands is distinguished with beautiful valley slopes where areas of picker forests and grassland fescue steppe have preserved.

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.

An autumn began to drizzle,

And rain is again with us on the day of forest planting.

It is a little windy and just a little cold,

But it is such a bright fall day!!!

Slanting rain beats our warm cheeks,

And coat with jacket have gotten wet long ago.

But as before we are holding this campaign

Together with Ministries in a hope!

That rain will stop some time and

Tears of the nature will stop slopping.

And we will plant again our trees,

And we will give them new birth!

Let the rain pour, the trees will strike roots,

Let these young plants have a drink,

And we will be tolerate, we are all humans,

Let’s make our planet green yet still!!!

Andrey Atamanov – Lead Consultant of Reforestation and Forest cultivation

On October 7th, 2017 an environmental oriented campaign “A Week of Forest – 2017”, organized by the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan is starting. The campaign is aimed at attraction of the public attention to the issues of forest resources preservation and reproduction, and is conducting within the framework of all-Russian campaign “Live, forest!”.

This autumn “A Week of Forest”’ campaign will be held in all municipal districts of the republic, in several areas of Prigorodnyi forestry and the city of Kazan. Within the framework of the campaign a planting of small poles in the area of 250 hectares, improvement of territories from household wastes, fallen and dry trees will be performed. 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 are participating in the campaign.

Within the framework of implementation of Plan of activities aimed at promotion of working and engineering professions, approved by Regulation of the Russian Federation Government No366-r of March 5, 2015, Federal Forestry Agency is conducting an All-Russian review competition of school forest divisions “The Best School Forest Division” (further – Competition) from September to December 2017.

The competition will be held by 4 nominations:

· “Reforestation;

· “Forests protection”;

· “Outreach activities”;

· “Management of school forest divisions activity”.

Please send applications and materials for participation in the competition by the following e-mail addresses: nashles17@mail.ru and les.obr@rosleshoz.ru till November 1, 2017.

Announcement of the competition results and determination of winners and prizewinners will be conducted till November 25, 2017.

Contact data:

· Promo VIP, Limited Liability Company, Ozherelyeva Yaroslavna Vladimirovna – 8 (985) 967-21-50, Nitay Sergey Anatolyevich – 8 (964) 572-16-90;

· Department of Prospective Forest Development, Science and Education of Federal Forestry Agency Science and Prospective Forest Development Administration – 8(495) 953-88-62.

October 4, 2017 - the second day of the international conference "Forests of Eurasia-Forests of Volga Region". Today, the participants of the forum were introduced with the objects of the forest fund of the Arskiy forestry, a forest nursery for growing of planting stock based on traditional technology, as well as school forestry.

The main goal of the conference is to familiarize young scientists with the latest achievements in various areas of nature management, the conduct of integrated forestry using environmentally friendly methods with the latest achievements in biology, genetics and biochemistry, with innovative methods of conserving the biological diversity of forest ecosystems, technologies for processing non-timber products of forest, wood and its waste in Tatarstan, their application in research and educational process. Creation of conditions for interaction of specialists in the field of forestry, cilviculture, conservation, active members of public environmental organizations, mass media and scientists for protection of forest ecosystems and the environment, establishment of contacts with foreign partners for joint projects are also important tasks of the event.

The official opening of the international conference "FORESTS OF EURASIA – FORESTS OF VOLGA REGION" was held at the Kazan State

Agrarian University. Acting Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan E.N.Bedertdinov delivered a welcoming speech to the forum participants: "The holding of the 18th Scientific and Practical Conference of Young Scientists "Forests of Eurasia – Forests of the Volga Region" is a great honor for us. Every year the geography of the forum is expanding and we are pleased that Tatarstan has become one of the organizers of the conference, along with the Republic of Belarus, Poland, Hungary, Finland and others. In this landmark year, I wish all participants of the conference an interesting and fruitful work and that all the plans and projects in the field of forestry development will be successfully implemented"

This year the event coincided with the 150th anniversary of the birth of Georgy Fedorovich Morozov, an outstanding scientist, a classic forestry expert, a coryphaeus of silvicultural science of universal significance, the 95th anniversary of Kazan State Agrarian University and the Year of Ecology in Russia. The main goal of the forthcoming conference is to familiarize the young scientists with the latest achievements in various fields of nature management, conducting of integrated forestry using environmentally friendly methods applying the latest achievements in biology, genetics and biochemistry, innovative methods of conserving of the biological diversity of forest ecosystems, technologies for processing of non-wood forest products, wood and its waste in Tatarstan, their application in research and educational processes. Creation of conditions for interaction of specialists in the field of forestry, cilviculture, conservation, active members of public environmental organizations, mass media and scientists for protection of forest ecosystems and the environment, establishment of contacts with foreign partners for joint projects are also important tasks of the event.

More than 200 scientists and specialists from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, China, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Serbia, Republika Srpska, Iran, Abkhazia, Armenia, Moldova, Germany, Italy, Romania and Slovenia participate in the conference. It should be noted that the geography of the Russian participants is also impressive, representatives from all over the country are expected to arrive: the Republics of Dagestan, Mari El, Udmurtia, Altai, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Bryansk and Moscow regions, St. Petersburg, Moscow and other regions. More than half of conference guests will be permanent participants.

Within the framework of the forum "Forests of Eurasia", participants are expected to familiarize themselves with the features of integrated forest management and innovations in the forestry sector of Tatarstan, visits to forest cultures and nurseries, water protection forests on the right bank of the Volga River, the Forest Selection Seed Center, and the Volga-Kama State Natural Biosphere Reserve, where foresters will be presented with modern methods of biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, innovations and advanced methods of forest management and opportunities of their use in the forestry complex.

The International Conference of Young Scientists "Forests of Eurasia" over the past decade is the largest youth conference with international representation on issues of forests, forest science and education.