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Within pre-holiday days the employees of Baltasinskiy State Complex Nature Reserve in cooperation with working men of Igenche Agricultural Production Cooperative and employees of Karaduganskiy village settlement conducted cleanup activities in the territory of nature reserve.

1.5 hectares of water conservation zone of the Shoshma River close to Karadugan village were cleaned up.

The experts of Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan encouraged the Russian national rugby team on July 08, 2017. We wish our team success and new victories.

Within the framework of “Clear bank” campaign the employees of State integrated nature reserve “Dolgaya Polyana” in cooperation with the teaching staff and pupils of the schools of Kamskoye-Ustye urban-type settlement cleared out form garbage the bank lines in the territory of State nature reserve “Gora Lobach”.

In despite of established misperception forest fires extinction in the Russian Federation is performed by foresters – fireproof formations of the Russian Federation subjects’ forest management. The big league of such forest fireproof formations, “forest special-operations forces” are presented by members of paratroop fire service.

A paratrooper fireman and raider fireman – are highly qualified specialists, possessing not only physical conditioning and specific theoretical knowledge, but also a wealth of work experience. During the whole fire danger period – from snow melt to snow cover formation – specialists of paratroop fire service are engaged in fire forests extinction, in case of necessity they are transported to the regions not able to cope with forest fire by own forces.

In winter period “forest special-operations forces” don’t sit on their thumbs – the personnel undergoes training and qualification upgrading, performs training jumps with parachutes and airdrop operations from helicopter by wire rope. They are honing meticulously those skills which will be necessary in summer period – it is not only airdrop operations and forest fire extinction skills, but also ground navigation, health care delivery, coordination of aviation actions by forest fire extinction, radio contact organization and many others.

The staff of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan participated in the environmental festival devoted to opening of open-air Museum of Forest in the territory of Municipal autonomous pre-school educational institution “Integrated Kindergarten No 305” in Sovetskiy district of the city of Kazan. The event was held on June 29, 2017, where representatives of RT Ministry of ecology and natural resources, Executive committee of the city of Kazan took part. The highlight of the festival was a solemn opening of the Museum of Forest, where the schoolchildren exhibited excellent knowledge in nature management, telling about forest tenants and rules of behavior in forests. Exhibition performance of children creative music group devoted to issues of careful attitude to native land nature was a grand slam.
Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan presented environmental posters and children collection “Lesnoy dozor” to the administration of the kindergarten for methodical department work.

Works in schoolyard and nursery garden have successfully been completed and holidays have come at last. Tatyana Chibidina – Head of Nurlatskiy school forestry with her pupil – activist Rodion Levin went on a summer trip by a voucher of Federal Forestry Agency to the All-Russian summer camp “Orlyonok”. They got a voucher owing to participation in a contest of environmental – patriotic projects “Forest of Victory”, where they took the second place. 

The children – representatives of school forestry from all Russian subjects are staying in “Stremitelnyi” building. According to the narration of Rodion Levin their building is surrounded with wonderful wayside of various types of cypress, cedar, sequoia and innumerable trees and bushes: we, inhabitants of Tatarstan, are used to aspens and birches growing in the flatlands, and here we are astonished with composition of tropical forests on the declines of Caucasus and changing coloring of the Black see water”. The guys named their group as “Lesnaya bratva”. In the summer camp they will certainly learn a lot about the nature and make new friends.

Within the framework of Memorandum of understanding in the course of cooperation in the sphere of forestry, a meeting of the Russian-German working group will be held in Germany on July 5 – 7, 2017. It is planned to discuss goals and main issues of the working group future activity, as well as scientific and research projects implementing in the Republic of Tatarstan.

At present in the republic the projects on development and use of forest plantations and optimization of mixed plantation of common oak and small-leaved linden are implementing in the territory of State Public Institution “Sabinskiy forestry” and State Public Institution “Kaibitskiy forestry”.

Last weekend, a bus excursion to Sviyazhsk island-town was held for the winners of creativity competitions within the framework of "March of Parks" campaign and voluntary projects. The schoolchildren of Agryzsky, Buinsky, Mamadyshsky, Zelenodolsky, Spassky, Atninsky, Baltasinsky, Vysokogorsky districts took part in the trip. The children were struck by the uniqueness of the geography of this wonder-town, washed by the waters of three rivers. The island remembered them with wonderful landscapes and its rich history. The children visited local attractions and learned a lot of interesting things, enjoying the leisure time.

The Biodiversity Department organized a visit to the village of Ekaterininskaya Sloboda of Novosheshminsky municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan, in connection with the cases of vipers slithering to the territory of the settlement. In the course of the visit A.V. Pavlov, an expert of the Volga-Kama State Nature Reserve, carried out the site survey, an explanatory work was carried out with representatives of the Executive Committee of  Novosheshminsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Executive Committee of the Ekaterininsky Rural Settlement, the Administration of the municipal budgetary educational institution "Ekaterininskaya general education school" on the needs for preventive measures to prevent poisonous snakes slithering to the village territory.

The viper is the only poisonous snake in our region. Other reptiles – water snakes, grass snakes, and snake-like legless anguines lizards - do not pose a hazard to human. All our snakes bring invaluable benefits to forestry and agriculture, eating a large number of rodent mice and restraining the spread of infectious diseases, for example, hemorrhagic fever.

The Viper does not attack the person firstly, it only defends, and its poison is not fatal. During the last century, there have been no fatal cases in Tatarstan. Nevertheless, because of the direct destruction by people the viper is rare and is listed in the Red Book of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan calls upon the people to be more careful during walks in the forests, during berries and mushrooms picking. Going to the forest, put on tight shoes and trousers; before picking up the mushrooms, "try" the leaves and grass with a stick. Having discovered a snake, it is better to bypass it or gently disturb it with a stick. Do not beat or kill at all. The viper cannot stand the presence of people and quickly creeps away.

Observance of such elementary precautions will save human health and the life of vipers - rare and useful representatives of our nature.

Four representatives of school forestry “Zelyonyi Patrul (Green Patrol)” of Yutazinskiy secondary educational school took part in All-Russian environmental forum held on June 4 – 8 in Moscow region. The pupils of Yutazinskiy school Ilzana Minnushina, Inzilya Garayeva, Marat Sadykov and Farkhad Mukhametzyanov headed by facilitator Gulnaz Garayeva and representative of State budgetary institution “Bugulminskiy forestry enterprise” L.V.Sadykova represented the Republic of Tatarstan. 5 ecological teams of Tatarstan visited the forum; participation of our teams in such large-scale events shows high level of competence. Opening ceremony of the forum coincided with the Day of environment protection. It started with welcoming speech of Executive Director Alisa Kryukova and Deputy Federal Forestry Agency Aleksandr Panfilov. Besides, the children got acquainted with creative presentation of art-objects of ecological teams. Experts followed the demonstration with insight and duly appreciated the works of young nature preservationists. The participants visited the seminar “Marine environmental issues through video camera objective” produced by Head of Film Studio of Institute of Oceanology RAS Vladimir Marin and made small talk with TV presenter Ivan Chuikin.

Besides, the school children got secrets of photo surveying art from professional photographers of the fest “Pervozdannaya Rossiya (Pristine Russia)” Yuriy Sokolov and Svetlana Ivanenko. In conclusion of educational panel the young ecologists discussed international distress message in forest areas with Vladimir Potanskiy – a guide of ecological center “Bitcevskiy les”, “Mospriroda”. It is obvious that after such eventful and educational program the young yutazintcy (people of Yutazinskiy distcrict) deeply learned environmental issues and ways of solution thereof.

On one of the sites the young ecologists conducted fashion show of handmade fabulous and national costumes. It was notable that the schoolchildren used various garbage instead of traditional materials.

Diligence of eco-designers resulted in wonderful costumes, amazing with both their beauty and original outer look. In the evening concert for forum participants Ilzana Minnushina – 5th form pupil of Yutazinskiy school rendered a Tatar song “Tugan Yak” for all participants from throughout the country. Her song was accompanied with photographs of Yutazy village, displayed in the large screen. The trip in whole left a bunch of warm and vivid expressions.