Tartu Students' Nature Conservation Circle is a

nature conservation organization Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the Ecosphere (planetary), ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the Scientific law, laws, elements and phenomenon, phenomena of the physic ...

(society) at the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.

. Established in 1958, it is the oldest student nature conservation society in the world. It has been continuously active since then. As preparing the environmental activists of the country, it had a remarkable role in the

Phosphorite War The Phosphorite War () is the name given to a late-1980s environmental campaign in the then-Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, against the opening of large phosphorite mines in the Virumaa region. The movement, peaking in 1987, was successful ...

that influenced the destabilization and destruction of the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

in the end of 1980s. Among the presidents of society there have been

Toomas Frey Toomas Frey (13 December 1937 – 23 September 2020) was an Estonian ecologist, geobotanist and forest scientist. Frey was born in Põltsamaa Põltsamaa is a town in Põltsamaa Parish, Jõgeva County, in central Estonia. The town stands on th ...

Ann Marvet Ann Marvet is an Estonian botanist. She is an editor of the journal ''Estonian Nature'' and a member of the Estonian Commission for Nature Conservation. In 2008 she was made a member of the Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star (; ...

Mari Reitalu Mari Reitalu (born February 10, 1941) is an Estonian botanist. She was a recipient of the Eerik Kumari Award Eerik Kumari Award () is an award given since 1989 to those who have excelled in bioscience in Estonia. It is named after Eerik Kumar ...

Rein Ahas Rein Ahas (10 December 1966 – 18 February 2018) was an Estonian geographer and a professor at the University of Tartu. From 2013–2015 he was a researcher-professor of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Education In 1991 he received his under ...

and many others.Tartu Üliõpilaste Looduskaitseringi presidendid
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