The Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has handed keys from thirteen UAZ cars to chiefs and specialists of inter-regional divisions of the RT Department for protection and use of fauna objects. In his welcoming speech he underlined the importance environmental protection.

“Results we obtain depend on our proper attitude to nature,” Rustam Minnikhanov said. He also noted that several integrated decisions had been recently made. In particular, the RT Department for protection and use of fauna objects has got its own administrative building; specialists of the department have received new cars.

The Tatarstan President noted that problems of updating material and technical facilities of the department would be solved in future.

“These cross-country cars will improve efficiency of your work. Unfortunately, people often treat nature in an exploitative manner and hardly anybody think about how to keep it. You are responsible for it,” Rustam Minnikhanov said.

Chief of the RT Department for protection and use of fauna objects Dmitry Ivanov told a correspondent of the Information Agency “Tatar-inform” that the department was founded in 1956 and it was reconstructed several times afterwards.

Rustam Minnikhanov also visited the museum of fauna exhibits of the Republic of Tatarstan after the ceremony.