A large-scale environmental action was held this summer in the north of the Baikal National Park, near the village of Zama. Several organizations and volunteer groups participated in the preparation and conduct of the events. In five days, 45 participants cleared the territory of the village itself, its surroundings, as well as the roadsides in the Zunduki area near the bridge leading to the settlement from the garbage accumulated for decades.

The cleaning campaign has become one of the most extraordinary ever held within the boundaries of a specially protected natural area on the western shore of Lake Baikal - in terms of the delivery of participants, their accommodation, the duration of the event. The youngest volunteer was 14 years old, the oldest was 67. All the participants worked with full dedication: during the cleaning, almost two tons of metal, 85 kilograms of glass, 19 of plastic were collected. Recyclables were sent for recycling, and not sorted garbage - for disposal, to the landfill Had-Kutul.

"The road to the north of the Baikal National Park is a test for both equipment and people. Therefore, we had to divide the way into two stages: first, volunteers and organizers were delivered to the place of the action by buses, and then by UAZ. Two trucks were needed to transport the entire volume of waste," explained Natalia Bolshakova, coordinator of volunteer projects at the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Reserved Baikal Region".

In addition, volunteers of the Russian Technological University visited the Khargino cordon and the Sandy Bay of the Baikal National Park.

"The guys were on the territory for a week. It rained almost daily, there were fogs. But the weather did not become a hindrance for hardworking guys and girls. They collected so much garbage that it took two boat trips to take it out for disposal. They found and cleared a small waste disposal made in Soviet times. In addition, the students helped to put in order one of the sanitary zones on the cordon and imposed almost 50 birch brooms for ungulates. We will be glad to meet them next year," said Alexey Ivanenko, State Inspector in the field of environmental protection of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Reserved Baikal Region".

Source: mnr.gov.ru

Опубликовано: 10 August 2022