PJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) fully supports nature reserves in the Murmansk region, on the Taimyr Peninsula and the Transbaikal territory, Vice-President of Norilsk Nickel Dmitry Prystanskov said.
"We provide comprehensive support to reserves such as "Pasvik", Lapland in the Murmansk region, the joint Directorate of Taimyr reserves, the reserve "Relic oaks" in the the Transbaikal territory," he said, speaking in Moscow at the VIII Ecological forum "Responsibility of business to the future. Technology on the side of society and nature."
According to Prystanskov, "assistance" from Norilsk Nickel allows reserves, first of all, to acquire modern scientific equipment and implement large-scale research projects, scientific research, to conduct active educational activities."
"Since 2015, we are seriously engaged in the restoration of biological resources. Over the past three years, the enterprises of the company Norilsk Nickel in the Siberian rivers and reservoirs of the Murmansk region alone released more than one million fry of valuable fish species. In the coming years, it is planned, without reducing the volume, to continue work on the replenishment of water and biological resources. We recently concluded such an agreement with Rosrybolovstvo," the Vice-President of Nornickel said.
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