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STUDENT BRIGADE HELPS RESERVE

Several student brigades worked at the Prisursky Reserve September 2 - 10, 2001. The group was organized on the initiative of the Youth Ecology Brigade (Druzhina) of the Chuvash Republic.

The groups looked for poachers at different lakes (Bashkirskoye, Schuchye, Lapshevoye, Stakitsa and Staraya Staritsa). The greatest number of poachers was found at the last two lakes and in the eastern part of the reserve’s buffer zone.

While working in the area of the Lyulya River and the lakes’ flood-lands the groups confiscated 21poaching tools (13 nets and 8 fishing baskets). The students filed 6 reports on violations of the reserve’s regime and the use of illegal fishing nets: 1on illegal fishing with nets in the reserve’s protected zone; 3 on illegal hunting in the protected zone; and 2 on illegal camping in the reserve and picking wild plants. The groups also filed 11 “impersonal” (no-offender-found) reports.

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