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Teacher's educational material "Birds and Nature" available in Macedonian for all teachers and educators

Macedonian Ecological Society within the project " Empowering Teachers and Pupils for a Better Life through Nature ", implemented in cooperation with five environmental NGOs from Europe, and financed by the Erasmus + program of the European Union on September 24 in the Municipality of Tearce and September 26 in the Municipality of Resen will hold two one-day workshops for kinder garden teachers and teachers from the first to the fifth grade in order to get acquainted with the educational…

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Fighting illegal wildlife poisoning with the Balkan Anti-Poisoning Project

Working across five states in the Balkans, the Balkan Anti-Poisoning Project brings together governments, wildlife conservation groups, hunting associations, farmers and scientists in an ambitious conservation project to tackle the single biggest threat to vultures, illegal poisoning. Vultures in the Balkans Cinereous vulture (This species no longer breeds in Macedonia) Once a common sight over the Balkan states the populations of the four European species of vultures, drastically declined over…

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List of Selected Endemic Terrestrial Plant and Animal Taxa of South-East Europe

Support for developing the List of Selected Endemic Terrestrial Plant and Animal Taxa of South-East Europe (hereinafter: List of Endemic Taxa of SEE) was provided by the Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Biodiversity (GIZ/ORF-BD) , as part of its sub-project „Regional Network for Biodiversity Information Management and Reporting (BIMR)“ funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale…

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Macedonian Ecological Society opens local office in Resen

For the first time since the establishment in 1972, the Macedonian Ecological Society (MES) on 09 of July has officially expanded its line of work to the Prespa Region by opening its very first local office, in Resen. The opening of the Prespa local office for us is an important step forward, having in mind that we are an active member and founder of the trans boundary PrespaNet network, formed in 2013 and implementing conservation activities in the Prespa Region in Macedonia, Albania and…

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Kick-off meeting for the preparation of an action plan against wildlife poisoning

On the 17 May in Skopje, the Macedonian Ecological Society (MES) in cooperation with the Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF) organised an international workshop to initiate the development of an action plan against wildlife poisoning. The aim of the meeting was to prepare a national scheme to address wildlife poisoning incidents in line with the domestic legislation by involving competent institutions. The meeting provided the opportunity to exchange experience with experts from Spain,…

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Celebrating five years of PrespaNet

On 29 March 2018, the Mac edonian Ecological Society, the Society for the Protection of Prespa from Greece and the Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania celebrated the fifth anniversa ry of the day when the three organisations of transboundary Prespa established PrespaNet, an NGO network for the protection of the Prespa watershed. On this occasion, emphasis was put on the need for the three countries to act in unison on its protection. Throughout the years, the…

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Our new look!

After more than 45 years of existence and work in nature protection and promotion of ecological science, we decided that it was high time to refresh our logo and modernise our website. We do hope that changing the organisation's image will bring us closer to the citizens and the members. Therefore, as of today, 22 April - Earth Day, until 22 May - International Day for Biological Diversity , MES annual membership will be free of charge. For decades now such international days bear significance…

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Lynx education week

MES initiated its educational caravan in Western Macedonia as part of the Balkan Lynx Recovery Programme. The educational caravan visited the villages of Vejce and Shipkovica, on Shar Mountain, and the village of Vrbjani, in Mavrovo. The challenge of teaching in Albanian and Macedonian was overcome by including PPNEA, our partner organisation from Albania. The MES team cooperated with more than 20 teachers and around 400 children. Through the educational package, children had the chance to…

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2018 International Waterfowl Census in Macedonia complete

For the ninth consecutive year, on the weekend of 13 and 14 January 2018, MES employees and volunteers conducted bird counting on Macedonia’s three natural lakes, also including adjacent water reservoirs and wetlands. Despite the biting cold, the teams’ weather-defying spirit and enthusiasm made an enjoyable endeavour out of the International Waterfowl Census (IWC) in Macedonia, resulting in a total count of as much as 11,000 birds on Ohrid Lake and Prespa Lake, and 5,500 birds on Dojran Lake.…

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Green Belt Day

The Macedonian Ecological Society in cooperation with the Euronatur Foundation from Germany, is organising their second Green Belt Day in a row to be held on the 24 September (Sunday) 2017 in the Skopje City Park. The event will begin at 12 p.m. and it will last until 15 p.m. We will celebrate the day with a series of different activities around the lake, and in the Central Park Cafe. The purpose of this event is to promote the valuable and rich wildlife found along the Green Belt, which…

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Резултати од фото конкурсот за Балканскиот зелен појас 2017

Различноста на зелениот појас низ очите на фотографите, ова се овогодинешните победнички фотографии на фото конкурсот за Балканскиот зелен појас . Наградата за прво место од категоријата професионални фотографи му припадна на Хелмер Ахмеди за неговата фотографија од глацијалните езера на Крчин. Фотографијата од Галичица на Дејан Димиџиевски го освои првото место во категоријата на аматери. Во категорија млади првото место го освои Марина Балоски со нејзината фотографија од р. Радика.

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Final conference for the project “Biodiversity Conservation through Sustainable Management of Resources in Shar Mountain”

On 11 May, more than 80 participants from Macedonia and the Shar Mountain region took part in the final conference as part of the project of preserving the biodiversity on Shar Mountain. This project is led by the Macedonia Ecological Society since 2015 in collaboration with local organizations that are united under the name “Friends of Shara” The conference, named “Challenges facing the management of Shara's environment in the future protected cross-boundary area Shara, Korab, Shari”, was able…

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