On December 21, the head of the Amur Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor Vyacheslav Goryachev awarded the winners of the International Children's and Youth Award "Ecology is everyone's business" from the Amur region - Alexander Gladkikh (Svobodny) and Anastasia Zhidkova (Blagoveshchensk).

Alexander Gladkikh, 14 years old, took 2nd place in the nomination "Let's save the planet together: "My Eco-world". In his creative work, Sasha performs an excerpt from the song "Birches" and tells us that you can see the beauty of nature with every cell of your heart and how important it is to instill love for all living things.

Links to the video:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUCNvHxqDjW/, https://disk.yandex.ru/i/qwu5puaB9IV6YQ.

Sasha has been blind since birth, which does not prevent him from having many favorite activities and hobbies: singing and playing guitar, editing photos in videos, skateboarding, playing ball, writing a script for Alice, composing music in the studio application.

Natalia Gladkikh, Alexander's mother, says about her son's participation in the competition: "Sasha taught me to hear the singing of birds, the buzzing and chirping of insects, the noise of the wind and the rustle of leaves. Walking through the park, we see garbage that unscrupulous visitors throw directly on the ground, into the grass. We try to put the garbage in the trash container. That's what led us to participate in the competition. We want to encourage people to see beauty in everything and take care of nature."

A special prize in the nomination "Let's save the planet together: "My eco-etiquette" receivedAnastasia Zhidkova, 15 years old. For your positive video about eco-life hacks Nastya was awarded a ticket to the Orlyonok camp.

During the shift at the Orlyonka, Nastya and other young laureates of the Ecology is Everyone's Business award, together with the head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radionova, planted an alley of Crimean pine. It turned out to be a busy shift: animation school, learning how to shoot stories and conduct video blogs, as well as New Year's eco-games with your own hands.

Anastasia has been interested in environmental issues for a long time. Developed and defended the project "Problems of environmental pollution by plastic". "Participation in the contest was close to my heart, I made a video and showed my eco-habits," Nastya said about her decision to take part. The head of the Department, Vyacheslav Goryachev, congratulated the children at the solemn event, presented prizes and thanked the parents for educating the children with a caring attitude to nature and the desire to take care of the surrounding world and ecology.