Gather signatures

Everyone can help to protect the protected areas and zones in Bulgaria. Currently active petitions are:

Petition for clean air over Stara Zagora region. SIGN HERE or write to us if you would like to get a paper copy of the petition and gather signatures among your neighbors, friends, relatives...

Petition for banning the maize GMO hybrid MON810 in Bulgaria

Petition for halting the construction of an asphalt base near Sevlievo within the Natura 2000 protected zone "Vidima". The petition is initiated by local people in the region of Sevlievo.

Second petition in protection of Rila and for removing the illegal lift in Panichishte and recultivating the area: You can sign the petition online here or gather signatures among your relatives, friends, colleagues, acquaintances by downloading and printing an empty form.

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Petition in protection of Vitosha Nature Park. You can download a paper form of the petition HERE and gather signatures among your neighbors, friends, relatives... If you would like to put a poster in the entrance of your block of flats, at the neighborhood shop or some other appropriate place, you can take posters from the office of WWF Danube-Carpathian Program in Bulgaria which is located at 71 Kniaz Boris Street, fl. 2, apt. 2, Sofia 1000. You can also obtain empty petition forms there.

Keep updated on the other petitions in favor of protected nature in Bulgari on our website!

Petition to protect the Zemen gorge and against the construction of a dam and mini hydro-electric power plant below the Polska Skakavitsa waterfall - you can sign it online HERE. The petition is initiated by citizens of Kyustendil.

How to gather signatures for a petition: if you are loaded with a burning desire and more free time, you can take a small table and place yourself in the city park, in the center of the city or some other popular place! Thus, even more people will be able to support your appeal and become part of the initiative. The more people get involved, the more certain it is that the responsible institutions will notice us and take action according to what the laws prescribe in order to protect Bulgarian nature!

Practical guidelines when gathering signatures at public places:

In order to gather signatures at a public place, you need to obtain a permission from the municipality. It is only required that you inform the municipality - just go to the municipality 2 days before the day when you would like to collect signatures and deposit a notification. In it you have to specify when, where and what you are going to do. If you intend to collect signatures every day within a given period of time, you can just obtain permission for the whole period. The notification is deposited in 2 copies - one of them is verified by a municipal stamp and returned back to you. You need to carry this document with you and present it to the police if they require it from you.

Please, send the filled in petition forms to the following address:

Sofia 1233, Banishora, bl.54, entr. D, fl. 2, apt. 86
tel. 02 / 931 61 83; 02 / 831 1 841

* There should be no replication of signatures of one and the same person in the paper and online version of the petition - only one signature is valid!

Petitions that have been sent to the relevant institutions until now:

First petition for Rila 147 935 signatures were deposited at the European Commission on May 8, 2008. The petition was publicly received by Commissioner Dimas himself. Two weeks before that the petition (containing 141 199 signatures at that time) was sent to the European Parliament.

Petition in protection of Strandzha - 18 000 signatures.

Petition in protection of protected areas and zones - deposited at 7 Bulgarian institutions on January 23, 2006. Number of signatures - 50 000. Part of the petition is a special petition in protection of the Black Sea coast, 16 000 signatures.

Current petitions