Tartu Students' Nature Conservation Circle is a nature conservation organization (society) at the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

. 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 ( et, Fosforiidisõda) 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 1 ...

that influenced the destabilization and destruction of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

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. He was also a political leader, with the Estonian Greens The Estonian Greens ( et, Erakond Eest ...

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 ( e ...

, Mari Reitalu, Rein Ahas and many others.Tartu Üliõpilaste Looduskaitseringi presidendid
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