On July 13, 2022, activities of the environmental educational project
“Protect Nature of Our Native Land. CPC-Utrish” started in Kuban. The grand
opening of the program, which was attended by Mikhail Grishankov, CPC Deputy
General Director, Government Relations, Oleg Chikhachev, Acting Director,
Federal State Natural Park "Utrish", and Vitaly Kozyrev, Deputy of
Novorossiysk City Duma, took place in the Utrish natural park located on the
Abrau Peninsula near Novorossiysk. During the ceremony, CPC representatives
donated to scientists 10 Balever BL480-LP ORIGINAL camera traps for wildlife
research.The environmental educational project is implemented by Caspian
Pipeline Consortium-R, Utrish State Natural Park and Krasnodar Krai NGO
"World without Borders". The program includes the purchase of
equipment needed by the unique natural park, publication of scientific and
educational scientific materials, and environmental awareness events for
students and teachers of secondary and higher educational institutions and
pre-schools in Novorossiysk and Anapa.
An educational campaign "Along the natural park trails,"
including natural park guided tours for student-volunteers and teachers of
educational institutions will be held during the first stage. The second stage will start with the
environmental awareness campaign "We vote for a green planet!”. Volunteers
will hold clean-up days to remove litter and plant trees and shrubs. Afterwards
there will be open lessons for schoolchildren and preschoolers titled
"Briefly about important things. Let's preserve the nature of our homeland
together".
The program also includes creativity contests "What I know about
the region's nature reserves" and "Attention! Turtle". The best
artworks will be displayed at the exhibition, and all contestants will receive
gifts. The results of the environmental educational project will be announced
in December 2022 at the gala concert "CPC - Utrish - Novorossiysk".