Bulgaria: The New Rospuda on Bulgarian Territory?
Citizen A | 07.04.2007 11:16 | Ecology
In Bulgaria, it's also possible to seriously endanger important protected terrain, and the situation is strikingly similar to that of the Rospuda bypass in Poland. In the protected Stranja National Park for the last one and a half years there has been construction work on a leisure village. The Bulgarian Green Party is demanding the immediate ceasing of the construction, and the European Green Party supports this demand.
If the resolution referring the main investor and local representative to the Court is rejected, the largest natural park on Bulgarian territory will be destroyed and undergo development.
The European Green Party is alarmed that Bulgarian ecological legislation reveals so many loopholes, making such construction work on protected terrain possible, and in particular that this is an area within the Natura 2000 network.
Illegal construction on the protected terrain poses a serious threat to biological diversity, of which Bulgaria is one of the EU countries richest in unique biodiversity.
The European Green Party is demanding the Bulgarian government and parliament take immediate steps in administration and legislation in order to prevent the illegal development on the terrain of the Stranja National Park.
Info: Miłka Stępien
Source: www.europeangreens.org
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For more information in English language, visit the WWF at:
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/danube_carpathian/our_work/forests_and_protected_areas/bulgaria_protected_areas_campaign/index.cfm
The European Green Party is alarmed that Bulgarian ecological legislation reveals so many loopholes, making such construction work on protected terrain possible, and in particular that this is an area within the Natura 2000 network.
Illegal construction on the protected terrain poses a serious threat to biological diversity, of which Bulgaria is one of the EU countries richest in unique biodiversity.
The European Green Party is demanding the Bulgarian government and parliament take immediate steps in administration and legislation in order to prevent the illegal development on the terrain of the Stranja National Park.
Info: Miłka Stępien
Source: www.europeangreens.org
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For more information in English language, visit the WWF at:
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/danube_carpathian/our_work/forests_and_protected_areas/bulgaria_protected_areas_campaign/index.cfm
Citizen A
