Dir.bg: Building of a Hihgway through Rhodopes Mountian Begins
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Publication - report from the NGO conference and Prime Minister's attitude towards NGOs
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Last obstacle for starting of ski project in Rhodopes is removed
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moreto.net: Exhibition for Rila presented in Varna
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dnevnik.bg: Ecologists put pressure on Stanishev for moratorium on the land exchanges
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dnes.dir.bg: Brussels handles Bulgaria's arrogance
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Stroitelstvo.bg: Four shelter areas are included in a project for ski complex
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Stroitelstvo.bg: EIA will be published in the internet
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Sega.bg: Forester number 1 doesn't see any alternative to land exchanges!
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Mediapool: Over 130 requests for land exchange are waiting their turn
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dnevnik.bg: Ambitions at the foot of the Rila Mountains
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Such a struggle it was for BSP (Bulgarian Socialists Party) to gain control over the woodlands from the MRF (Movement for Rights and Freedom) – it took them more than a year. And until that became a fact in July 2007, there was a downpour of promises for reforms in that sector. Since then the newly created State Agency for Forests (SAF), which is under the supervision of the prime minister Sergei Stanishev, hasn’t achieved anything substantial. The head of the agency though , Stefan Iurukov has succeeded in breaking the record in the discipline “exchanges” – in less than 10 days he managed to give away 3.3 thousand decares of forest land around the coastal area and the winter resorts. The transactions were done in the end of April and the beginning of May. This week “24 hours” revealed some of the favoured businessmen. There are no random names – amongst them are the advertising boss Krasismir Gergov, Hristo Kovachki – a citizen of Samokov and the attorney-at-law Todor Batkov. The businessmen themselves admitted about the deal for the newspaper and revealed their investment plans. Gergov is making a golf course on 200 decares of forests in Balchik, Kovachki is building ski slopes and resorts on close to 1300 decares of woodlands in Rila Mountain, and Batkov is planning a neighbourhood for 20 thousand people in the Burgas Bay on state land, estimated at about 5.8 mln leva.
evropa.dnevnik.bg: EU finances transport projects in conflict with Nature 2000
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Dnevnik.bg: Good morning Brussels
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Dnevnik.bg: New Directive
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dnevnik.bg: Gergov, Kovachki and Batkov acquired the national forest by the seaside and in Rila at a loss
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The EUROPARC Federation and the PAN Parks Foundation have joined forces in the publication of a Resolution on Wilderness Areas, which was drafted following an international round table meeting on ‘Wilderness in the European Union’ held during the recent EUROPARC 2007 annual conference in Český Krumlov, Czech Republic, attended by some 300 protected area experts from 24 European countries.
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Eight international nature conservation and mountaineering organisations have sent a letter to Bulgarian authorities demanding a halt to illegal construction in Rila National Park, the country"s largest national park and one of its most famous protected areas. They criticized the Bulgarian government"s decision not to include the buffer zone around Rila National Park into the EU"s Natura 2000 network of specially protected areas in order to facilitate developers" plans to create ski facilities in the area.
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Bulgarian environmentalists demonstrated today in front of the European Commission building to table a petition signed by 145.000 people. They are seeking support from Brussels to stop the construction of a ski resort in the Rila National Park.
Stavros Dimas, Commissioner in charge of Environment, was there to receive the petition. The European Commission is alredy in contact with the Bulgarian authorities and, next June, will hold a bio-geographical seminar, with experts and all the intereseted stakeholders, to analyse the situation.
Stavros Dimas, Commissioner in charge of Environment, was there to receive the petition. The European Commission is alredy in contact with the Bulgarian authorities and, next June, will hold a bio-geographical seminar, with experts and all the intereseted stakeholders, to analyse the situation.
stroitelstvo.info: 'Panichishte - Ezerata (The Lakes) - Kabul' will be an ecological project
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