The open ecology lesson took place in the Kazan gymnasium №3

(KZN.RU, March 1). Today, Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of Tatarstan, took part in the open lesson of ecology, which was held in Kazan gymnasium №3 in the framework of the republican campaign “Ecological lesson”.

Engel Fattakhov, the deputy Prime Minister of the RT and the Minister of Education and Science of the RT, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, Artem Sidorov, the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources, Farid Abdulganiyev, the minister of Ecology and Natural resources of the RT, Farid Khairutdinov, the head of the Rosprirodnadzor, also attended the event.

In his welcoming speech, the head of Tatarstan emphasized the need for further development of environmental education of Tatarstan students.

“We have technical, chemistry, and physics high school. There has to be ecological lyceum, too”, said Rustam Minnikhanov. He also added that the director of the gymnasium №3 plans to create an environmental class on the basis of one of the buildings of the school. “It will be possible to promote these developments in our other schools in the example of yours”, he said.

Rustam Minnikhanov also spoke about the construction of the incinerator plant in Kazan. He noted the positive experience of Japan on the application of a waste management technology.

During the meeting, Kazan schoolchildren, winners of republican and Russian environmental competitions, presented their environmental projects.

So, Anna Chazova, a student of 11 grade of the school №72, prize-winner of the All-Russia Olympiad in ecology 2016, made a presentation, in which voiced recommendations for improvement of the Kazanka River. According to a young researcher, the recent plague of fish and ducks associated with the mass development of blue-green algae and, as a result, deterioration of water quality. To avoid such situations in the future, Anna Chazova offered to ban the use of detergents with phosphates, which promote the rapid development of toxic algae, and also to work on the conservation of macrophyte islands and partly on the banks of the Kazanka River to bind nutrients.

In addition to projects and student presentations, Rustam Minnikhanov got acquainted with the programs “School eco-patrol” and “Eco-City”, reports the Tatarstan Government Portal.

The President emphasized the importance and necessity of such projects for Tatarstan. “The environment is a special quality of life”, said R. Minnikhanov. “Neither medicine or sports will help if our environment will not meet the right criteria. I believe that this is very important. All these issues must be considered from childhood, from school”.