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In accordance with the provisions of the Tehran convention and its Strategy for Civil Society Engagement in the Caspian Sea Marine Environment or Public Participation Strategy (PPS), one of the main mechanisms for the stakeholders involvement into the Caspian Sea marine environment protection is the annual celebration of the “Caspian Sea Day” in each of the Caspian Sea littoral states. The fest was established on August 12, 2006, to mark the entry into force of the Convention.
The regional activity of the ecologically-oriented organizations covers such areas as minimization of the Caspian Sea marine and coastal environment pollution, dissemination of information on the environment status, environmental education and awareness-raising which mainly relates to bringing up the younger generation – schoolchildren and students.
In 2018, the activity devoted to the Caspian Sea marine and environment protection was conducted in all three Caspian Sea constituent entities of the Russian Federation – the Astrakhan region, the Republic of Dagestan and the Republic of Kalmykia.

Map of Tourism provided by Manana Kurtrubadze for the SOE (2018).

On August 11, 2017, a number of events were held by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Azerbaijan (MENR) connected with the 12 August – “Caspian Day” for the purpose of raising public awareness with regard to the problems and conservation of the Caspian Sea. A meeting was held at MENR by way of the discussion of environmental issues of the Caspian Sea, implemented works and mechanism of involvement of the public in the protection of the Caspian Sea with the participation of certain governmental bodies, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), as well as the youth. Furthermore, a cleansing action was conducted at the coastal zone of Novkhani beach in order to increase the public role, and strengthen the collaboration with public on the betterment of the environmental state of the Caspian Sea and its littoral zone. It should be noted that 2 hectare area was cleaned during the cleansing action, and the collected wastes were recycled. The main objective of the celebration of “Caspian Day” is the strengths mobilization on the protection of the Caspian Sea environment from pollution, conservation, restoration, sustainable and effective use of biological resources of the sea, and public enlightenment in this sphere.