EU BOOST TO GREENS IN BULGARIA AND ROMANIA
http://www.vagabond-bg.com/?page=business&[ ... ]p;open_news=657

Environmentalists have become serious opponents to business interests over
the European Natura 2000 Programme, leaving local governments helpless in
the crossfire.
Is Bulgaria Really Skiing’s Next Hot Spot?
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/travel/02bulgaria.html

THE morning sky outside my window was gray with rain — the last thing I wanted to see at Bansko, the biggest ski resort in Bulgaria. A dispiriting mist hid the half-built hotels and condos that lay beyond the ugly Glazne River, and the Pirin Mountains were all but invisible. The town had been warm and wet the past two days, and conditions up on the slopes below the roughly 9,000-foot Todorka peak hadn"t been much better. I closed the curtains with a sigh and gave myself the day off.
ENDS Europe DAILY 2438, 28/11/07

EVROPA.DNEVNIK.BG: 20 000 SQUARE METERS DISAPPEAR FROM RILA NATIONAL PARK
http://evropa.dnevnik.bg/show/?storyid=399821

EARTHFIRST.ORG.UK: 'RILA IS DEAR!' JOIN EFFORTS TO PROTECT NATIONAL PARK
http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/17834

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 >