Dagestan State University hosts environmental education event
The project «Botanic Eco Dag» designed by the Junior Researcher of the Laboratory of Flora and Plant Resources of Mountain Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ruslan Osmanov has become the know-how in the field of environmental education in the republic.
The author of the project acquaintes students of the university with endemic species of plants of Dagestan, listed in the Red Book. It was also interesting for students to learn about the conservation of genetic resources (by the example of apricot common) and about the medicinal species of the republican flora. Many of them expressed their desire to contribute to the organization of the next exhibition, diversifying it with personal photo archives.
A separate stand of the exhibition was dedicated to the landscapes of Dagestan: the peaks of the Bazardyuz and Ragdan mountains, the Gunib plateau, the Upper Gunib natural park, the Talgin gorge, the Terek floodplain, the Barik Sarykum, the nature monument "Usochishche Sosnovka", the natural park "Itzari" and the Samur forest. This is not a complete list of the most picturesque sites of Dagestan.
"The goal of the project is to increase the level of knowledge among the youth of the republic and other subjects of the North Caucasian Federal District in the field of ecology and cognitive tourism, through a series of scientific and educational activities of an ecological nature and botanical and ecological excursions" - Ruslan Osmanov said.
It is worth noting that the botanic-ecological tourism is based on the demonstration of rare plants or the objects of nature. According to Ramazan Murtazaliyev, the Head of the Laboratory of Flora and Plant Resources of the Mountain Botanical Garden, there are 90 endemic plant species in Dagestan growing only in the territory of our republic and 176 species of our flora listed in the Red Book of the Republic of Dagestan.
