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№ 23 (3173)17.02.2006
Well forgotten "Isles"
Hares made their home near the disposal dump, Stoats went away up-stream

A day or two ago I saw a Hare, while I was walking with my dog, along the Kazanka river near Gorky Park. I was surprised! Yet my dog showed no surprise. Our Yashka is a pure-breed street dog. His genetic memory prompted him that Hares are not rare near Kazanka within the town. They have always been here. Yet in he last few years mainly on the right riverbank, in the Novo-Savinovsky district.

36 Hares lived here in 1997, according Kazan ecologists, and Partridges nested behind the Marsh... Well, during the census the vigilant scientists, even found two well hidden dens inhabited by the companions of Monarchs - Ermines! Also Musk-rats, Marsh-Otters, Herons, Wild Irises, even aboriginal Orchids: The Ecologists insisted that the unique natural systems of the flood-lands and isles of Kazanka should get the status of "especially protected terrain". Yet it is not all!

Animals and people

- It should be a landscape park with a differentiated regulation of protection, - the vice-president of Tatarstan`s council of the All-Russian nature conservation society Tatiana Lyadova finds. -The historical landscape of Kazanka flood-lands remained only on some few pieces of the land, its common area is not more than few hundreds of square meters. Access to the most precious of them should be denied, and we should let the people walk on the others and take their pleasure in nature, in their co-existence with other living creatures! In the Western lands people are proud of such natural spots in the centers of megapolises:

In 1998 ecological community of the city insisted that the City Soviet (the city council) included an item about creating a park "Kazanka`s Isles" into the program of Kazan development. This idea was also approved by the Ministry of Ecology, Architectural Authority of Kazan, the Ecology of Natural Systems Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan and by WWF.

In 2004 the City soviet was also all in favor of this program with the same item listed in it.

The planning projects of the "Eastern Zarechye" (the Novo-Savinovsky river-bank) underwent a public ecological examination by experts. Its results were considered by "Kazgrazhdanproyekt" (Kazan civil projection) and were appreciated in the conference by the general city planning scheme designers: That is all.

In 2005 Partridges were not found. The Marsh is full with sand. The congener of my Yashka got to the nests, for they have hunger too. The burrows of many animals are under water since the water-level was raised for the needs of power engineering. The Ermines went away somewhere up-stream. There are only four Hares left, they live on the disposal dumb (they can not find food anywhere else). In winter the river becomes frozen and they sometimes come also to the left riverbank to the Sovyetsky and Vakhitovsky districts.

- We tried to inform the ex-major Kamil Iskhakov about it, yet his deputies always stopped our attempts. - Tatiana Lyadova says. - They just sent our papers back to the Ministry of Ecology!

Because of this bureaucratic delays the proposals to save Gorky Park, to forbid filling stations building on the sides of Kaban-lake were all ignored. The placing of attractions near the Molodezhny Center (Youth center) was also permitted without consulting with Ecologists.

As the result of it a piece of land with the highest aboriginal Orchids` numbers was destroyed. Where was the Ecological State Control? Where was the Environmental Office of Public Prosecutors? One might as well cry "hello"!

And the answer is silence...

The solving of this problem depends on the city authorities: they should make a request to the government to give the "Kazanka Isles" the status of "especially protected terrain". Yet you see, it turns out that they should themselves cut off the hands which give out the best building lots whith the most attractive locations - in the flood-lands of Kazanka?! We beg your pardon mother-nature!

- In spite of many appeals and suggestions of the city communities the Kazan Administration did not answer the questions of the status of the future park and its limits. Isn`t the building up of the river-sides without any ecological examination the reason of this delay? - Tatiana Lyadova asks by right.

There are some examples: the so called "Krasny Vostok brewery`s house", built up even not on the water-edge, but on the extra deposited little cape; Vagiz Mingazov`s mansion with a very deep foundation which disturb "capillary network" of the river; the bridge and the residential areas on the left river-bank, during the building of them the breeding bottom of fishes was destroyed... The prohibition of the building on the river-banks is the binding law according the federal legislation. Kazanka`s flood-land is the water protection zone and what is more the river is a declared nature memorial of the Republic-wide importation.

- You should show your fidelity to principle at the beginning, on the preparation stage and not only when an object is already built in the nature conservation zone! - Rustem Minnikhanov pointed out strictly on the recent local control collegium.

Right would he be if he was not the head of the executive authority!

Protect the nature!

The situation is the following now: "Kazanka`s Isles" do not exist as an object with a legal status. And they are close to become not existing at all. An ecological inspection is necessary for an advance in getting the status of especially protected natural zone and park. It is worth some money. Yet...

- An integrated inspection can be registered officially on a voluntary basis, - Tatiana Lyadova says enlisting the support of her colleagues. It means - absolutely free!

Is the question solved? Not likely! The state inspection by "Rostekhnadzor" (Russian technical inspectorate) is necessary to make such investigation legal. And the State is not like public ecologists, it does not render free services. The city should pay for the state inspection. Yet:

- The City Administration in the name of the department of the external accomplishment objects refuses to examine this question under pretence of a just another reorganization. - Lyadova says.

She and her colleagues Nafisa Mingazova, the Kazan state university professor, and Sergey Mukhachev, the leader of the nature conservation organization of the Kazan state technological university, find that it is necessary to do the following:

1. To finance the scientific work to complete the inventory of the endangered species of the city promptly and to prohibit allotment of the lands, on which the rare species may be leave.

2. To reservate a territory for the city landscape park "Kazanka Isles".

3. То order a project and to finance work of renaturation of the channels, which divided the isles from the riversides opposite to the "East Zarechye" housing estate (Novo-Savinovsky district), washed off by chops of dredgers.

4. If the designers of the general planning scheme prove the inevitability of the building up the terrain within the limits of "Kazanka Isles ", the cost of these lots should include the cost of finding the rare species, which can not move to a new territory, and bringing them to the favorable location.

5. To appeal to the federal government for regulation of the conditions of the level control of the Kuibyshev reservoir, for it should not harm flora and fauna of the flood-lands and isles of Kazanka. Otherwise to demand paying for the saving of the precious biological species from the power engineering sector.

6. To fence in the precious lands to keep them from the stray dogs.

7. To express the Ecologists` thanks to the heads of "Tattransgidromeckanizaciya" stock for taking into account the suggestions of public ecological inspectors and helping the students to clear the riversides away. The heads of the Ministry for Emergency Situations also deserve gratitude for help by removal of garbage from the most precious island: 3 cubic meters of garbage had collected on the space of 300 х 450 square meters (take into account that the students pressed plastic garbage!).

8. To ask to the people in the name of the city authority not to leave the garbage on the isles and on the riverside, to walk only on the special paths in order not to trample down many rare species. So, two camp-fires extirpated the whole Primrose population in the spring 2002 on the "East Zarechye" riverside.

9. To establish an ecological ethics examination for all the municipal officials.

The Republic`s council of the All-Russian nature conservation society appeals also to all patriots. If you can finance the state ecological expert-examination of the complex inspection of the future "Kazanka Isles" park materials (maybe even preproject works and designing of the park) your help will be accepted gratefully.

Marina YUDKEVICH.

 

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