Prizes for the finalists of the International Children's and Youth Award "Ecology is everyone's business" were awarded today in Irkutsk.

On behalf of the Federal Service for Supervision of Nature Management, the founder of the award, the prizes were presented by Oksana Kurek, head of the Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Irkutsk Region and the Baikal Natural Territory.

Today we were awarded:Malyshkin Anna, 13 years old, she took 2nd place in the nomination "Young eco-journalist".

For the 2nd place in the nomination "Ecoaction" received a well-deserved awardDiana Zhakova is 15 years old,Bakulin Ivan is 13 years old,Rykov Lev is 14 years old,Kasymbekova Nuria, 15 years old.

The special prize for "Ecomultfilm" was awardedKsenia Krylova, 15 years old.

Most of the children just returned yesterday from the children's camp "Orlyonok", where they were also awarded vouchers by the members of the jury of the award.

Recall that this is the second awarding of the guys from the Irkutsk region – the first took place on December 16 in Vihorevka.

The main mission of the project is to raise the level of environmental culture among young people, identify talented children and adolescents, encourage them and conduct environmental education, popularize the topic of ecology and respect for nature.

The award was established by Rosprirodnadzor in the spring of this year. In six months, 9,5 thousand applications were received, 6000 works corresponding to the competition regulations were accepted. About 650 works that were shortlisted for the jury passed to the final of the award. All works are published on Rutube. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Victoria Abramchenko became the Chairman of the competition commission.

According to the results of the International Children's and Youth Award "Ecology is everyone's business", children and teenagers from 27 regions of the Russian Federation became the winners of the first, second, and third places.

We are proud to announce that the Irkutsk region is among the leaders in the number of prizes - 15 guys from our region received awards.