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Birdwatching Tour
PIRT “Via Pontica” Birdwatching Tour PROMOTING INNOVATIVE RURAL TOURISM IN THE BLACK SEA BASIN REGION 2014 Table of Contents Birdwatching Sites .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Armenia ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Bulgaria .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Georgia ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Turkey ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 51 Technical Requirements, Issues and Solutions ............................................................................................................................................................ 70 Detailed Itinerary ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ -
Master Thesis the Progress of Bulgaria in the Implementation Of
Master Thesis The progress of Bulgaria in the implementation of the Natura 2000 network and the main stumbling blocks upon its way Nevena Hristova, ANR 283251 Tilburg University Law School May 2012 Supervisor: Prof. Dr. J. M. Verschuuren Contents Chapter 1 Thesis outline…………………………………………………….…………………….4 Chapter 2 The preaccession conditions in terms of nature conservation and the current status of the implementation of the Natura 2000 network in Bulgaria……………………………………..8 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………..8 2. Nature conservation in Europe…………………………………………………………….8 3. Natura 2000 in Bulgaria…………………………………………………………………...9 3.1.Progress towards accession………………………….……………….………………11 3.2.Transposition of the Birds and the Habitats Directive……………………..………...15 3.3.Closure of Chapter 22 Environment………………….…………………….………..18 3.4.The Bulgarian Biological Diversity Act………………………………......…………20 3.5.The current status of the implementation……………………….……….…………...23 4. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………….25 Chapter 3 “When it comes to nature protection, nothing in Bulgaria is sacred.” 1The problems with the AAs/EIAs and public awareness in Bulgaria…………………………………………...27 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………27 2. The AA/EIA as regulated in Bulgarian law……………………………………………...28 3. The public awareness about nature protection and Natura 2000 in Bulgaria – the role of the environmental NGOs as a driving force for change…………………………………31 4. Three case studies – the golf complex in Bojuretz, Kavarna (2006), the construction works in Stranja (2009) and the ski resort in Bansko, Pirin (2011)……………………...34 4.1.The golf complex in Bojuretz, Kavarna (2006)……………………………………...34 4.1.1. Facts of the case……………………………………………………………...34 4.1.2. Analysis from the perspective of AA/EIA…………………………………...37 1 A statement by Michael Baltzer, Director of the WWF’s Danube-Carpathian Programme, URL: http://wwf.panda.org/index.cfm?uNewsID=88660 accessed 4.03.2012, 2 4.1.3. -
The Interview with Dimitar Popov
„Many politicians in Bulgaria still act upon the maxim: The more concrete tourist blocks, the better!“ Interview with Dimitar Popov of Green Balkans about the difficult nature conservation work in Bulgaria. Dimitar Popov has studied economics in Plovdiv. Since 7 years, he works for Green Balkans, one of the largest nature conservation organisations on the Balkans with over 4.000 members. Within the scope of the project “NatuRegio – trai- nees for nature”, which is co-financed by EuroNatur, this year he has spent several weeks in two different German nature conservation institutions: in spring, in the stork village of Rühstädt in the biosphere reservation embedded in the fluvial landscape of the river Elbe in Brandenburg, and in summer, five weeks in the main office of EuroNatur in Radolfzell. There, they talked about his work, the situation of nature conservation in Bulgaria and his experience in Germany. Photo: Gunther Willinger EuroNatur: How does Green Balkans work? its success, we were then granted a GEF project for conservation of biodiversity, restoration of habitat and the development of Dimitar Popov: Green Balkans works for nature conservation in sustainable tourism in this region, financed by the World Bank. Bulgaria on many different levels. Supported by many volun- Unfortunately, in our efforts to implement this project we are teers, we organise direct protective measures of species such wasting much energy in struggling with local politicians who as the Eastern Imperial Eagle, vultures, storks or terns. Our would rather build more giant tourist blocks. However, in the full-time staff has been significantly involved in elaborating meantime the area has obtained Natura 2000 and Ramsar the Natura 2000 area list in the run-up to the EU-accession, status, which makes it somewhat easier for us. -
EU Infringements to Bulgaria, Can We Call It a Success Story? Bankia, 06.December.2011
EU infringements to Bulgaria, can we call it a success story? Bankia, 06.December.2011 Alexander Dountchev, APB Threats to Natura 2000 Illegal practices in the Bulgarian Natura 2000 Kaliakra IBA № 2007/4850 – Infringement procedure concerning the reduction of the designation area of 6 SPAs (Kaliakra, Rila, Pirin, etc). - Legal grounds for complaint: Art. 4 (1) of the Habitats Directive (designation of sites); - Scientific facts for complaint: Inventory of the Important Bird Areas in Bulgaria (2006) - Unofficial reasons for the ungrounded reduction of the designation area: Economical reasons (ski-resort projects, wind-farm projects); - Results of the infringement procedure: 5 out of 6 sites are designated, - Experience: You need top scientific research 460 investment projects 22.8% of the IBA area 42% of the SPA area Illegal practices in the Bulgarian Natura 2000 Kaliakra pSCI/SPA 2007 New development plan adopted without published SEA Illegal practices in the Bulgarian Natura 2000 KaliakraStrandja pSCI/SPA pSCI/SAP 2008 New development plan adopted without published SEA Illegal practices in the Bulgarian Natura 2000 № 2008/4260 – Infringement procedure concerning the destruction of Kaliakra IBA (Via Pontica) after 1.1.2007 as result of the illegal authorization of wind-farm projects before 1.1.2007 •Legal grounds for complaint: Art 4 (4) of the Birds Directive and Art. 6 (2) of the Habitats Directive (Kaliakra SPA was still not designated when the projects were authorized). •Evidences: Inventory of the Important Bird Areas in Bulgaria (official publication 2006), GIS-analysis, EIA documents and building permits for the wind-farms and other projects, complaints to the court, etc. -
Mountain Biking Tour
PIRT Mountain Biking Tour PROMOTING INNOVATIVE RURAL TOURISM IN THE BLACK SEA BASIN REGION 2014 Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Itinerary 2. Bulgaria-Turkey ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Additional Sites Included in the Itinerary Nr. 2 ............................................................................................................................................................ 17 Introduction For a ticket to adventure, bring your mountain bike to the Black Sea Region. The four countries around the Black Sea- Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia and Armenia, are a paradise for mountain biking with innumerable cycle routes on gravel roads, in the mountains and along rough cart roads. Their dramatic natural landscapes offer challenging and rewarding slick rock trails, lush green single track, ruins of ancient civilizations, canyons and secret paths to explore. The mountain biking in and around Black Sea is some of the best trail riding in Europe. There are no restrictions on using bikes on the routes. Most of the routes are suitable for energetic mountain biking. Mountain biking is best between May and June or September and October. Itinerary 2- The “Black Sea Discovery” -
Experiences on the Implementation of Natura 2000 in Central Europa
www.nimfea.hu ◆ www.milvus.ro ◆ www.greenbalkans.org Foreword Europe’s biodiversity is in serious decline. At the species level, 42% of Europe’s native mammals, 43% of birds and 45% of reptiles are threatened with extinction extinction. That’s why we need Natura 2000, which – at least in principle - is a brave and encouraging policy to protect nature, to save Europe’s most vulnerable habitats and species for the future. Today there are more than 25,000 NATURA 2000 sites across the EU. There are national parks and protected nature areas in other countries as well, but NATURA 2000 is the only systematic and scientifically planned nature protection policy on a continent level, throughout almost the whole Europe. (Candidate countries and neighboring policy partners are also encouraged to participate it.) NATURA 2000 is not only about the pure nature, its sites very often include towns, villages, farms and businesses and the aim is to protect „living landscapes”. The EU laws specifically provide for businesses and local authorities to work together to find ways to protect biologically unique sites in ways that are both good for the environment and for development, in the spirit of the sustainable development. Farming, fishing, forestry and hunting can all continue. Even major development projects can be carried out as long as they do not destroy the ecological value of the site. When the EU talks about protecting biodiversity, we do not mean the conservation of one or two species. As Environmental Commissioner Dimas pointed out, “our real concern is with ensuring that our natural ecosystems continue to provide us with food, timber, clean water, flood protection, nutrient re-cycling, medicines, recreation and the many other goods and services that we currently receive free.” However in practice the sources for NATURA are limited, many times they are misused for simple agrarian subsidies. -
Europe Dialogues No
CUBA – EUROPE DIALOGUES No. 1 / 2007 QUARTERLY BULLETIN ON RELATIONS BETWEEN CUBANS AND EUROPEANS CUBAN VIEWS Cuba Waits for the Day After Cuban Transitional Programs ON TRANSITION EDWARD MCMILLAN-SCOTT 2 NIKOLA HOřejš 4 Ahead of Central Europans: ANALYSIS Draft of Todos Cubanos FREDO ARIAS KING 7 Notes on the Draft Constitution Ready for Changes: APSC In the Hands of the Generals VOjtěcH CEPL 10 LUCAS GARVE 15 JOSÉ ANTONIO FORNARIS 17 Cuba and the Keys Reformists and NGO Charter 77 after Thirty Years OPINION of the Spanish Transition Recommendations KUSÝ MIROSLAV 19 CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER 12 MARKUS MECKEL 16 NGO Network: CUBA LIBRE IN BULGARIA 25 Document: Warszaw Appeal MAKING STATEMENT 21 Recent Events International Committee for EVENTS WHILE ON HOLIDAY 26 NEW REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS 23 Democracy in Cuba 30 ISHR SUES CUBA AT THE UN 27 2007 Events 32 photo by Pavel Hroch by photo Pavel CUBA WAITS FOR THE DAY AFTER Edward McMillan-Scott he autumn streets of Havana are The only colour on the crumbling colo- sons’ imprisonment in 2003 for crimes dark at night. The few electric nial buildings comes from political slo- against the state. A token 75 political Tlights are reserved for the main high- gans extolling the 1957 revolution led activists had been rounded up. ways. Side streets are lit only by the by Los Hermanos Castro (‘The Castro occasional patched-up pre-revolution Brothers’). One is the dictator Fidel, The Women were eager to talk, eager Buick or Chevrolet, sometimes an open dying from stomach cancer, the other to know my opinion about what hap- door throws neon light onto the pave- his notoriously boozy brother Raul. -
Download Thesis
This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ Geographies of transition heritage, identity and tourism in post-socialist Bulgaria Naumov, Nikola Sotirov Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Non Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No Derivative Works - You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you receive permission from the author. Your fair dealings and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 06. Oct. 2021 GEOGRAPHIES OF TRANSITION: HERITAGE, IDENTITY AND TOURISM IN POST-SOCIALIST BULGARIA A THESIS SUBMITTED BY Nikola Sotirov Naumov BSc MBA MSc IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 21 MAY 2018 KING’S COLLEGE LONDON Abstract In 1989 the fall of the Soviet Union brought new economic, socio-cultural and political realities to many Eastern European states, which were faced with a long and difficult period of transition. -
Photographic Workshops with Young in Multiethnic Regions
Editorial The topic – Art and Community Development – of the current issue of the Journal on Community Development in CEE seems to be quite controversial. It is not only because “The arts are often considered to be at the periphery of the community development process...” as Alan Kay mentioned in 2000. As Teodor Mladenov discovers in his article here (“Community Development and Art: Welcoming the other within”) there are a whole set of binary oppositions which build walls between “community development” and “art” – ethics vs. aesthetics; rational vs. emotional; public vs. private, etc. But it is even more complicated. In Eastern Europe, as Svetla Kazalarska points out in her article (“Community-based arts in South-Eastern Europe: A double oxymoron?”), the concept of “community development” itself is more or less “imported” from the USA and Western Europe (mostly United Kingdom). And at the same time, “the arts” in the post-communist societies are considered in a narrowed context with a focus on “high arts” and with less emphasis on amateur or community arts. Finally, at the level of community development practitioners one could easily feel the ill concealed undervaluation of the arts and culture. There are different reasons for that but one is obvious – there are only few organizations in Central and Eastern Europe which actively recognize the arts and culture not only as an instrument but also as a vital part of the community development processes. In this context, when I was starting the real variety of viewpoints and theoretical/ preparation of the current issue of the methodological considerations. Journal on Community Development in CEE few months ago, I decide to defi ne Some of the articles – as for example three main aims: the already mentioned texts of Svetla Kazalarska and Teodor Mladenov – are First, to present a variety of practices and more theoretical, or more precisely – examples of using the arts as a tool for “framework oriented”. -
Leeds Student Law and Criminal Justice Review
Leeds Student Law and Criminal Justice Review March 2021 Volume 1 www.essl.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/141/leeds_student_law_and_criminal_justice_review THE EDITORIAL BOARD 2020 - 2021 Managing Editor Maariyah Islam Assistant Managing Editors Kisby Dickinson & Clare James Editors Ananya Banerjee Atif Bostan Amy Gainford Natasha Gooden Ibukunoluwa Iyiola-Omisore Peter Ochieng Tu Tran FOREWORD I am delighted to be asked to write the Introduction to the first edition of the Leeds Student Law and Criminal Justice Review. The School of Law at the University of Leeds is proud to be home to this new journal that showcases the outstanding work of our final year undergraduates. All of the articles originated as excellent final year dissertations, revised in the light of feedback from an editorial board made up of postgraduate research students. The final year dissertation is the culmination of a research based undergraduate degree that actively develops students’ independent research skills. The authors of these articles devised their own research questions, delving deep into a subject that they had become interested in in the course of their degree, benefitting from one to one supervision by a faculty expert in the field. The result, as this journal demonstrates, is a rich breadth of cutting edge research questions and diversity of methodological approaches that build on and speak to the strengths of three of the School’s Research Centres in Business Law and Practice, Criminal Justice Studies and Law and Social Justice. Busuioc’s excellent paper addresses the important and topical question of the extent to which the introduction of blockchain in the democratic processes of the European Union can improve the quality of democracy. -
Heritage at Risk
HERITAGE AT RISK HERITAGE AT RISK H@R WORLD REPORT 2016-2019 ON MONUMENTS AND SITES IN DANGER WORLD REPORT 2016-2019 ON MONUMENTS AND SITES IN DANGER ICOMOS is dedicated to the development of common doc- trines, the evolution and circulation of knowledge, the crea- tion of improved conservation techniques, and the promotion of cultural heritage significance. As an official advisory body to the World Heritage Committee for the implementation of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, ICOMOS evaluates nomi- nations and advises on the state of conservation of properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. ICOMOS has built a solid philosophical, doctrinal and managerial framework for the sus- tainable conservation of heritage around the world. The ICOMOS Heritage at Risk Reports, first published in 2000, are part of this framework. From a strictly preservation-based approach this publication series offers world-wide information 2016about the dangers that are threatening our cultural heritage, in order to provide help in the case of risks and to promote practi- 2016-2019 cal measures to avert or at least allay these risks. The Heritage at Risk Reports are also addressed to the world public as an urgent appeal to commit itself to saving our heritage. Available also on the Internet, the reports furthermore serve as data base 2019for the ICOMOS Global Monitoring Network. 783945 880678 www.icomos.org ISBN 978-3-945880-67-8 9 HERITAGE AT RISK HERITAGE AT RISK WORLD REPORT 2016-2019 ON MONUMENTS AND SITES IN DANGER PATRIMOINE EN PÉRIL PATRIMONIO EN PELIGRO EDITED BY CHRISTOPH MACHAT AND JOHN ZIESEMER Published by hendrik Bäßler verlag · berlin Heritage at Risk edited by ICOMOS President: Toshiyuki Kono Secretary General: Peter Philips Treasurer General: Laura Robinson Vice Presidents: Leonardo Castriota, Alpha Diop, Rohit Jigyasu, Grellan D. -
“Hello Melancholy …”
“Hello Melancholy …” “Writing for Central- and Eastern Europe 2005“ Imprint: Published and edited by: Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Public Relations Department, A-1020 Vienna, Lassallestrasse 1 www.ba-ca.com APA – Austria Presse Agentur A-1060 Vienna, Laimgrubengasse 10 www.apa.at Graphics by: Horvath Grafik Design, APA-DesignCenter / Frank Neubauer Printed by: Gutenberg Bank Austria Creditanstalt Publications service: tel. +43 (0) 50505, ext. 56148 (answering machine) fax +43 (0) 50505, ext. 56945 e-mail: [email protected] September 2006 Contents One Europe / Erich Hampel ..................................................................................................................................................................2 APA as CEE Agency / Michael Lang......................................................................................................................................................3 “Hello Melancholy” .............................................................................................................................................................................4 Frau Bulgarin, Ivan Milev and Gustav Klimt / Diana Ivanova...............................................................................................................6 Polish Sauna / Diana Ivanova................................................................................................................................................................9 Prague: Hermelin and Depression / Diana Ivanova ............................................................................................................................12