On March 14, 2012 Gorno-Altaisk hosted this year’s first meeting of the Public Advisory Board affiliated with the Prosecutor’s Office of the Altai Republic on the issues relating to nature protection and natural resource management. S.N. Shchigreva, Deputy Director for environmental education of the Altaiskiy Biosphere Reserve, participated in the meeting on behalf of the Reserve.
The meeting brought together the following Board members:
1) N.V. Malitsin, prosecutor of the Altai Republic;
2) V.V. Krasilov, Gorno-Altaisk interdistrict environmental prosecutor;
3) V.V. Kosterin, I.S. Malkova, I.M. Tyukhteneva, senior assistant prosecutors of the Altai Republic;
4) L.V. Shestak, assistant prosecutor of the Altai Republic;
5) B.K. Alushkin, Chair of a regional branch of All-Russia Public Organization of Veterans (Pensioners) of War, Labour, Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Bodies, Chair of the Altai regional branch of the Russian Union of Journalists;
6) E.N. Malchinov, Chair of the regional branch of the Russian Association of Young Entrepreneurs in the Altai Republic, director of OOO "Altai Mountains Communication Center";
7) S.N. Shchigreva, Deputy Director for environmental education of Federal State Budgetary Institution (FSBI) Altaiskiy State Biosphere Reserve, Chair of the regional public ecological organization “Triglava”;
8) Y.V. Robertus, director of the Altai Republic’s Autonomous Institution “Altai Regional Institute of Ecology”;
9) V.Y. Kats, head of Territorial Center “Altaigeomonitoring” of OAO “Altai-Geo”;
10) V.S. Ivanova, legal counsel at Human Rights Commissioner Administration in the Altai Republic, associate professor at Civil Rights and Law Department and environmental law teacher at State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Gorno-Altaisk State University”.
The list of reports:
1). 2011 results of Gorno-Altaisk Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor’s office (V.V. Krasilov, member of the Board, Gorno-Altaisk interdistrict environmental prosecutor).
2). Preparation measures of forest management bodies and federal institutions – Altaiskiy and Katunskiy Biosphere Reserves - ahead of 2012 forest fire season. (V.V. Krasilov, member of the Board, Gorno-Altaisk interdistrict environmental prosecutor).
3). Results of considering nature protection and natural resource management issues by the Human Rights Commissioner Administration of the Altai Republic (V.S. Ivanova, legal counsel at Human Rights Commissioner Administration in the Altai Republic, associate professor at Civil Rights and Law Department and environmental law teacher at Gorno-Altaisk State University).
4). Environmental safety and nature protection issues discussed at International Media Congress in Strasbourg (B.K. Alushkin, Chair of a regional branch of All-Russia Public Organization of Veterans (Pensioners) of War, Labour, Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Bodies, Chair of the Altai regional branch of the Russian Union of Journalists).
Special consideration was given to the issue of educating the population of the Altai Republic in the sphere of solid household waste pollution threat as well as the issues of fire prevention measures and preventive environmental work with the locals and tourists coming to the Republic.