On 14 June a group of pupils from the Summer City School of Environment, which is annually based as part of the Voloshina Centre of Children’s Additional Education (Kemerovo), visited the territory of the Karakansky Natural Reserve Area and Vinogradovsky Open Pit Mine during the educational field trip.
During the trip the children could visit the experimental range of Vinogradovsky Open Pit Mine, where workers of the Kuzbass Botanical Garden of the Federal Research Centre of Coal and Coal Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have been making experiments for the third year running. Kuzbasskaya Toplivnaya Company gives particular importance to the restoration of the derelict areas – the Company provided the scientists with the conditions for the development of a new restoration technology which is aimed at the formation of continuously stable vegetation communities based on the local flora species. PJSC KTK is planning to spread this positive experience to the other sites of own open pit mines, which are required to be restored.
The next stage of the trip was visiting the viewpoint and the quarry where coal surface mining is carried out. The last object of interest was the washing plant.
Karakansky Regional Natural Reserve Area was founded in 2012; about 550 vascular plants are found in the area, 10 species of which are listed in the Red Books of different ranks. Moreover, this is a habitat for rare species of birds of prey common for the steppe landscape. Taking into account the high natural value of these areas the KTK management made a decision to donate patches of land owned by the Company for organization of the natural reserve area.
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