"Clean Ice of Baikal"

The UNDP/GEF project "Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Baikal Basin Transboundary Ecosystem" has supported shoreline and ice cleanup public event “Clean Ice of Baikal” on 14 April 2012 in Yartsy township. This event was organized by International volunteer project “Save Baikal”, and is a part of international garbage collection campaign “Let’s Do It World Clean Up 2012!” and “All-Russian Cleaning 2012”.
40 volunteers from Russia (Ulan-Ude, Moscow), France and Polland took part in this event. During 6 hours of work 90 garbage bags, 120 liters each, were filled with garbage from Baikal ice and shoreline by the volunteers.