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Awareness raising activities regarding lindane removal from OHIS

Time frame: November 2018 – April 2019 Funding: United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Beneficiary : POPs Office, Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning of the Republic of Macedonia Project goal: By including experts in public relations and awareness raising, public healthcare, environmental protection, as well as other NGOs with relevant expertise to the topic, MES within this project endeavors to share the information to all stakeholders regarding lindane removal…

Nature and Environment Protection Policies

Teacher training on innovative nature education materials held in Gevgelija

Macedonian Ecological Society continued with teacher training which was initiat ed in the in the “Empowering Teachers and Pupils for a Better Life through Nature” project implemented in cooperation with five environmental NGOs from Europe, and financed by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. On 23 March, MES and a representative from Kindergarten "Majski Cvet" – Skopje held one-day training for the kindergarten teachers and caregivers from Kindergarten "Detska Radost" – Gevgelija. The…

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The wild side of Prespa - the beginning of a series of events

MES-Resen is organizing a series of lectures titled “The wild side od Prespa”. The short presentations are meant to introduce all interested parties (especially locals) to biodiversity monitoring and organism-specific skills, and most importantly – to tell stories that will spark up excitement for the field studies to follow and make the wait for the spring and summer more bearable. With this in mind, we are going over examples and anecdotes derived from monitoring studies on different…

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New male lynx collared in Mavrovo National Park

Another lynx got a GPS collar in Mavrovo National Park to track its movement. On 27 February, together with Park staff, we managed to collar this individual and now we are successfully tracking its movement. The lynx is a two-year old male weighing 19 kilograms. - After the Park’s employees called us about a chamois kill, we returned at the site and placed a foot snare. The lynx returned at the feeding site six hours later, whereas the whole procedure to take blood and measures lasted for about…

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Early spring surprises from IBA Lower Vardar

During regular fieldwork activities in the scope of the “One Flew Over the Storks Nest” project we encountered two interesting bird sightings in the Lower Vardar river IBA. The first surprise was the White Storks pair in the village Bogorodica. According to the locals the pair was first noted in January and has stayed in the village ever since. We suspect that the pair didn’t migrate and has survived feeding in the adjacent wetlands and dumpsites, or stayed in the warmer parts of Greece. Such…

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The largest Balkan lynx captured in Mavrovo National Park

This weekend marked the capture of another Balkan lynx individual, near the village Sence, Mavrovo National Park, sixth in a row ever since the research inception in 2010 using radio-telemetry and GPS tracking by the Macedonian Ecological Society (MES). It should be underlined that the lynx, provisionally named B8, is the record-holder for the largest Balkan lynx individual ever to be captured for scientific study. Weighing twenty-seven kilograms, this individual is a real-life “beast”. –This…

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World Wetlands Day – Prespa Lake in focus

We celebrated the World Wetlands day on the 4 th of February in Resen, jointly with the Municipality of Resen. This year we organized educational activities for the youngest students in the kindergarten in Jankovec. We conducted experiments which explain how feathers provide insulation and introduced the students to the most important wetland bird species from their region. These birds are indicators of climate change and they are in the focus of World Wetland Day. A connection to nature needs…

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Informative signboard installed in Mariovo

The Macedonian Ecological Society today installed a signboard under the “Egyptian Vulture New LIFE” project (LIFE16 NAT/BG/000874). The content of the signboard is educational, and it contains information about the species ecology, distribution, interesting facts and the threats that the bird is experiencing. Mariovo with its unique geographic and climatic features has arguably the most suitable habitats for survival of this species in Macedonia, but at the same time this is where Vulture…

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A new winter Balkan Lynx monitoring session has started

Balkan lynx monitoring activities were initiated with the installing of the first box-traps in the National Park Mavrovo. The team of the Balkan Lynx Recovery Program along with the employees of the national park faced real challenges to set up the box-traps given the unfavorable weather conditions and the inaccessible terrain. However, persistence and enthusiasm won and we currently have six active box-traps and hope for a new lynx to be captured and tracked.          …

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One Flew over the Stork’s Nest: Identifying threats to two wet meadows in IBA Lower Vardar – phase 1

Time frame: November 2018- August 2019 Funding: Euronatur Foundation, Germany Coordinating beneficiary : Euronatur Foundation, Germany Associated beneficiaries : Municipality Gevgelja, Municipality Bogdanci, local communities Stojakovo and Bogordica, Water management unit Gevgelija Project goal: This projects efforts will be dedicated towards identifying the type and amount of water that feed into the ditches and canals (and ultimately in the wet meadows Gjol and Gjeren), identification of the…

Bird Study and Protection

International Waterfowl Census (IWC) 2019

For ten years now, on the weekend of 12 and 13 January 2019, 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 25.000 birds on Ohrid Lake and Prespa Lake, and round 6.000 birds on Dojran Lake. These…

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Annual membership meeting

The annual membership meeting is a predecessor to the meetings of our Presidency and the Assembly. This time the meeting was held on January 10 th at the MKC Restaurant. The members were greeted by our President, Professor Slavcho Hristovski, PhD. and the Executive Director Robertina Brajanoska, MSc, but we were especially honored by the speech given by out Founder Ljupcho Grupche, PhD. During the membership meeting we once again thanked and honored our Nature Heroes, Emanuel Lisichanec for his…

MES Annual membership meeting