On 23 May 2024, a ceremony was held in Astrakhan Oblast summarizing the results of the environmental and educational project “Protect Nature of Our Native Land”.
Mikhail Grishankov, CPC Deputy General Director, Russian Federation Government Relations, representatives of Astrakhan Oblast Government, Oleg Malkin, Head of Volga-Caspian Territorial Department of the Federal Agency for Fishery, and Maxim Gorokhov, Head of Volga-Caspian Branch of All-Russia Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (KaspNIRH), participated in the final event.
As part of the educational part of the Project, 30 demo lessons were conducted in Astrakhan Oblast rural districts. In total, 170 applications and pieces of work were submitted to the creative competition in the categories: "handicraft", "environmental action", "agitbrigade” (team of canvassers), "poem" and "environmental poster". This year, the organizers decided to increase the number of creative categories to five and prizes from three to four. 60 pieces of the contestants' work were awarded with valuable prizes.
200 juvenile beluga, Russian sturgeon and sevruga weighing from 200 g to 1 kg were released into the natural habitat from the pier of NECA BIOS. On the same day, over 41,000 fry of Russian sturgeon, beluga and sevruga weighing from 3 to 300 g were released in the area of the Volga Delta.