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Broshure 'Ski resorts in Bulgaria's mountains?'

With touching photos and few words this brochure illustrates what happened to Bansko in Pirin and what awaits Rila (the symptoms are identical) and leaves it up to the reader to make the choice about the adequate direction of development - preserved nature and beauty or ploughed up, eroding slopes, illegal lifts and a smoke-screen from SUVs, motorbikes, and ATVs in the high parts of the mountains.

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Broshure 'Rila Campaign' in 2008

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A broshure presenting the value of the natural treasures in Rila Mountain, the threats from the illegal construction of new ski resorts, and the landmark successes of the civil campaign for preserving Rila Mountain from unauthorized development of such illegal projects.

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Bulletin of the coalition - march 2009

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Bulletin of the coalition - april 2009

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A LAST DANCE OF THE NATURA 2000 SUPPORTERS WITH THE BULGARIAN COUNCIL OF MINISTERS – A LOT OF MEDIA AND NO MINISTERS AT ALL

A LAST DANCE OF THE NATURA 2000 SUPPORTERS WITH THE BULGARIAN COUNCIL OF MINISTERS – A LOT OF MEDIA AND NO MINISTERS AT ALL

After more than a year of absence from the square in front of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers the citizens who support the Natura 2000 network in Bulgaria decided to knock on the doors of The Realm Of The Unrestricted Power and to remind that the problems surrounding the implementation of the European environmental network in Bulgaria are not only unsolved but become even worse. The event had to bring in the focus of the public attention the hearing that takes place today between the Petitions Committee by the European Parliament and citizens who have brought in petitions on the violations of the European environmental legislation in Bulgaria. Vera Petkanchin from Citizens for Rila, Andrey Kovachev from Balkani Wildlife Society and Nelly Arabadzhieva from Green Balkans have the mission to trigger accelerated procedures against these violations and against the insufficiency of the Natura 2000 network, that still does not include valuable zones like Rila Buffer and parts of Irkakli wild beach. The discussion will include also the scandalous cases like Kaliakra, Kamchiiiski pyasatsi and Strandzha.

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The tree of Natura 2000 was planted in front of the Representative Office of the European Commission today

The tree of Natura 2000 was planted in front of the Representative Office of the European Commission today

A tree was planted today by the enthusiastic citizens who supported the European Environmental network in 2007 by protesting in front of the Council of Ministers in Sofia, Bulgaria for nine months, using artistic meanings to remind the Bulgarian minsters that they have to work urgently on the approval of Natura 2000. The tree lived in a pot for almost two years waiting for the entire range of the network to be approved by the ministers but as this did not happen so far the concerns for it's comfort in the pot grew larger and the environmentalists decided to gift it as a mascot to the European Commission Representative office in Bulgaria.

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Rila news 2

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Issued by France-Rila Association and Rila Crew Society.

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The Rhodopes - ski resort Super Perelik

On 8 June 2007 the Municipal Expert Council of the Municipality of Smolyan authorized the Modification of the General Spatial Plan (GSP) of the “Perelik sports and tourist center” by Decree No.624/08.06.2007 without carrying out any Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and following Article 6 procedures. This is in ...

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Irakli

An illustration of the problems around the preservation of the Black Sea sites that are part of the NATURA 2000 network and of civic activity in defense of nature. See the treath

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Cyanides

Gold extraction that includes the use of cyanide become increasingly dangerous threat to the Bulgarian nature and, most importantly, to the life and health of the local people. Huge projects for gold extraction using the cyanide method are prepared for variety of Bulgarian regions, including the Eastern Rodope mountain ...

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Rila and the ski resorts (Iskrovete-Maljovitsa)

The beatiful region of Maljovitsa in Rila mountain is privatised by highly illegal practices of "forest swaps" aimed at the construction of a new ski resort in the forested lands of Govedartsi village, Samokov Municipality, instead of forest management improvement practices. Forest swaps are alleged illegal state aid a ...

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Iskyr river in Samokov

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Nikopol's plateau

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Kamchiya's Sands

This unique natural site seems to be doomed due to a decision by the Supreme Administrative Court. As a result of this judicial precedent 250 more protected natural territories in the whole country are also at risk.

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Rila and the ski resorts, Panichishte

The magnificient Seven Rila lakes under threat! The Rila Mountains are home to one of the largest National Parks in Europe. It is a safeguarded place for national and world treasures – undisturbed wilderness, wild animals, and rare plants. People, for centuries, have lived in relative harmony with nature in the footh ...

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Rila (Kartala)

2008: Construction of a cabin-lift in Rila Mountain authorized by the Municipality of Blagoevgrad without an EIA in violation of Art. 92 of the Environmental Protection Act and Art. 144 of the Spatial Development Act; Complaint by NGOs to the Supreme Administrative Prosecutor’s Office and DG Environment (EC)

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Eastern Rodopi mountains – illegal investment plans threaten biodiversity

The Eastern Rodopi Mountains are among the most beautiful and untouched places in Bulgaria. With their specific landscape and rocky outcrops this place has become a stronghold of biodiversity. Many endangered species live and nest here. This is the only place where the three vulture species seen in the country make t ...

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Vitosha Nature park - Aleko

Updated information as of 31.01.2012 on the case about the amendment “Vitosha Ski” to the Bulgarian Forestry Act, and the dangers resulting from it. Sign the petition

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Kara dere

Kara dere is a virgin beach in the southest part of the Varna"s Black sea-coast. But it"s also endangered by the booming urbanisation.

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Bansko ski area in Pirin National Park

Pirin National Park has unique natural resources such as pine woods which are more than 120 years old, including the Baikusheva White Fir – the oldest tree on the Balkan Peninsula. A 2009 satellite image analysis of the Bansko Ski Zone revealed that it was more than twice the size of the concession contract permitted ...

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Strandja

The illegal construction in the Strandzha Natural Park began and ended before the very eyes of all institutions.

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The Bojurets Golf Complex or how Bulgaria conserves the protected species and unique plant ...

The small villages of Bojurets and Topola are located between the towns of Balchik and Kavarna. They are nearly depopulated now but the surrounding nature is unique. On the landsliding terrace above the sea, which not long ago was virgin and incredibly beautiful, diverse rare and endangered animal and plant species had ...

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Petitions

  • Petition (new) for saving Vitosha Nature Park

    05.01.2012 - 01.01.2013
    6040 signed >

  • PETITION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT on the delay of 4 and а half years of the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria to designate the proposed by the environmental and scientific community Natura 2000 zone RILA BUFFER in Rila Mountain

    03.07.2011 - 31.01.2013
    350 signed >

  • PETITION regarding the attempts of the Bulgarian Government to legalize 64.7 hectares of illegal cuttings in Pirin National Park by making amendments to existing legislation

    03.07.2011 - 31.01.2013
    1218 signed >

  • Petition for clean air in the region of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

    20.02.2010 - 31.12.2012
    1894 signed >

  • A petition asking for the illegal ski lift in Panichishte to be removed and the laws in National Park Rila to be applied

    10.04.2009 - 31.12.2012
    4247 signed >

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