An Irishman's Diary
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0615/1224272513252.html
ON AN aptly damp day in the Rhodope mountains southwest of Sofia, with the tall trees all around us dripping wet, we stood at the grave of James Bourchier on a hill just above the spectacular fortress monastery of Rila as Geoffrey Keating, Ireland’s Ambassador to Bulgaria, reminded us why we were there.
9 visits
Petitions
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
286 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
1118 signed >Petition for clean air in the region of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
20.02.2010 - 31.12.2012
1862 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
4206 signed >