Priority areas of activity of the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change are: (a) development and implementation of a unified state policy in the field of nature conservation, rational use and restoration natural resources, waste management, and climate change; (b) conducting state environmental control for the protection of nature, including atmospheric air, lands, bowels, waters, forests, protected natural areas, protection of wild fauna and wild flora, waste management; (c) ensuring the protection, conservation, of forests, afforestation and reforestation, increasing the productivity and rational use of forests; (d) organization of hydrometeorological service, monitoring of climate change and environmental pollution; (e) development of cooperation with civil society institutions and the public in the field of nature protection, system organization environmental education and support of scientific research; (f) introduction of the principles of "green” development, reduction of harmful emissions into the environment, reducing the negative impact of human activities on nature; (g) introduction of digital technologies in the field of nature protection, establishing a system for reducing and automating the human factors in monitoring; (h) further development of ecotourism, hunting and safari tourism, effective use of forestry opportunities and national natural parks (with the exception of areas transformed into nature reserves) and the construction of appropriate infrastructure facilities, creation of favorable conditions for foreign and domestic tourists and provision of their services; (i) application of effective measures to prevent, detect and suppress violation of the requirements of legislation in the field of protection nature and rational use of natural resources; (j) monitoring the state of the environment, identifying factors that can lead to environmental pollution, irrational use of natural resources, creating risks to life and health of citizens; (k) monitoring the compliance of the ongoing economic and other activities standards, norms, rules for nature protection and the requirements of other regulatory legal acts, as well as application of legal measures; (l) ensuring the observance of the rights and legitimate interests of legal persons and individuals, fulfilling their duties in the field of nature protection and rational use of natural resources; and (m) establishing control over the rational use of forests, regulation of relations in the field of nature protection, control over organization of ground and aerial protection of forests.