December, 2020

The ongoing dramatic water level drop of Lake Prespa has prompted the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning of North Macedonia to adopt a set of urgent measures to ensure good water status as well as to protect soil and biodiversity for the benefit of both people and the lake ecosystem. Developed with support from prominent national scientists and experts, the Action Plan also aims at ensuring wise and …

The Macedonian Ecological Society (MES) and Resen Municipality, managing Ezerani Nature Park and Lake Prespa Monument of Nature, have recently embarked on a ground-breaking work to restore wet meadows and alluvial forests with common alder. The work builds upon previous studies that mapped all wetland habitats and identified restoration options for priority habitat types around the Greater Prespa Lake in North Macedonia. The studies identified four types of wet …

The PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet has recently shared PONT’s experience in strengthening management effectiveness of protected areas in the Wider Prespa Area by publishing a Full Solution under the title Closing the gap between strategic and operational planning for protected areas. It builds upon and complements the previous story by PONT published on PANORAMA in 2018, under the title Prespa Ohrid Nature Trust (PONT) – an …