September, 2020

In 2007 a team from the Macedonian Ecological Society (MES), in cooperation with Serbian and French scientists (herpetologists and ecologists) commenced the long-term study of the population dynamics of the Golem Grad island reptiles. Population studies require capturing as many individual representatives of the population as possible, gathering as much morphological and ecological data as possible from them, marking them permanently in order to identify them at points of …

Following the successful completion of the first grant in August 2020, PONT and Resen Municipality continue their cooperation over the completion of the 2020 Operational Plan for the Ezerani Nature Park (ENP) and Lake Prespa Monument of Nature (LPMN). Their second Grant Agreement, signed on 18 September by the PONT Executive Director –  Mirjam de Koning and the Mayor of Resen – Zhivko Gosharevski, will ensure effective implementation of …

In January 2020, PONT signed a grant agreement with the Association “Sport for all – All for sport” – a non-governmental organization based in Ohrid, concerning the second edition of the Ohrid Ultra-Trail® – an international trail running event taking place at Galicica National Park. The grant enables the Association and its partner organization “Outdoor Sports Association – TREX” from Skopje, to strengthen their capacity for organizing the Ohrid …

The challenge A Biodiversity Monitoring Scheme (BMS) is a long-term array of complementary surveys, censuses, surveillance and monitoring referring to a well-defined and ecologically meaningful area, the analysis of the results of which allows at least a basic understanding of trends in the values of some important elements and the causes of change. Monitoring is the systematic measurement of variables for a specific reason (Spellerberg 1991): the term census refers …