On August 18, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, at a meeting with participants in the Far Eastern Hectare program in Blagoveshchensk, asked environmentalists from Primorye to give his son a book on the rules of survival in the wild.
This event was attended by one of the initiators of the project “Forest School” Veronica “Natalia Bugaets. She said that she and her friends received 20 hectares of land in the area of Pidan Mountain. It is there that they are going to develop their idea of environmental education with interactive elements.
“At your school” Veronica “<...> [обучают] survival skills in the wild, there is even a whole corresponding recommendation for children. May I ask you too, you will leave me an autograph for my son and give me a book so that he can see how to survive in the wild, “Mishustin TASS quotes.
Last week Mishustin lamented that the influx of young people to Kamchatka had decreased, and called for the return of romance to the peninsula, which was in Soviet times.
At present, ecotourism accounts for only 2% of the entire tourism industry, although Russia ranks first in the world in terms of the area of specially protected natural areas, Gazeta.ru writes.
Mikhail Mishustin is on a working trip to the Far East, which will end on August 18.