the Main work if to judge on the most frequent ecological crimes in area — this investigation of illegal hunting and deforestation. Now one criminal case already in production also goes check upon damage of the big territory of the earth in one of areas. Field investigators yet do not disclose a detail. Investigators see a public role in pointing to problems. So, for example, representatives of the Penza office of geographical society revealed in Kolyshlei district an illegal dam which ruins a local pond and its inhabitants.