Переведите текст ! заранее ! the ecological association “tabigat”. the director of the ecological association "tabigat" answers the questions of our reporter. -on the environmental protection day your organization was awarded with international "global-500", the prize of the united nations’ environmental (unef). could you tell us more about this award? and what achievements have you been awarded for? -jimmy carter, the us ex-president and the prime-minister of norway were awarded with it. so, now the "tabigat" ecological association has joined their company. we try to propose effective ways of solving the problem. such was the case with the sor-bulak - a sewage pond. that was the most difficult ecological problem for almaty citizens and citizens of the almaty oblast. we decided not to build a thrash-combustion plant in almaty, taking into account the ventilation of the city’s atmosphere. as an alternative, we proposed a method of separate thrash collection and processing wastes into secondary raw materials. the tabigat ecological association was the first to initiate creation of the charyn national park. in addition ,a nursery-garden was created to save kazakhstan greyhounds-tazy. we annually organize actions aimed at planting trees and thousands of almaty citizens take part in them. on 5 june 2002 a solemn ceremony of awarding prize winners was held in the city of ginseng(people’s republic of china) the city of ginseng was the winner of the “ecologically clean city” nomination. that is why the presentation was held in ginseng in 2000 we spoke of a very urgent problem of balkhash lake, as this lake is endangered to have the same tragedy as the aral sea does. in 2000 we initiated the international balkhash forum ; over 500 people took part in it. balkhash problem should be solved at the international level .by the way, when i made a welcoming speech on the occasion of the “global-500”prize award i tried to attract the chinese ecologists attention to this problem. -who sponsors you? -for many years i worked on my own. but i am sure that people and nature needed my work. today i have five fellow-workers. we attract the society’s attention to the major problems.