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BBF team kindly invites you on December 4th – 9th from 12.00 to 18.00 in Debut gallery (62 Vasil Levski Bld.)

to the Exhibition of the Green Belt Photo Contest Winners'. Some pleasant surprises will wait for you there ….

BBF will announce for the third time the competition for financing of the students’ masters’ thesis in the field of biodiversity conversation and protected areas management. All students from Bulgarian Universities could apply with project proposals, if they are in the scope of the competition:

• protection of the world threatened species;
• management of protected areas; 
• mechanisms for sustainable use of nature resources; 
• eco-tourism development, bio-agriculture, etc.
• nature-conservation education

For the first time the new exhibition of Kaliakra Visitors center in Bulgarevo will be presented to the general public.

BBF team will use the International Black Sea Day to acquaint the local people with the richness and the problems of the Black Sea.

On October 31th 2 groups of pupils and 1 group of students will visited the Center and will study for the fishes, dolphins and seals. For sure the interactive installations and interesting presented information will involve the kids and make them real friends of the sea. In the afternoon will be the celebration for the “older” people, who will have a chance to watch the new actual film – “The cry of the Sea”. The authors of the film are Tzvetelina Atanasova and Valentin Gonevski from BNT.

I pledge to do the following simple things to protect the Black Sea environment:

More than 200 delegates from 37 national Governments, the European Commission, five UN organizations, 88 NGOs and private companies debated ways to activate the full potential and capacity of the Union. Among them were 4 representatives of BBF. Participants set the stage for a process to develop a vision for European nature beyond 2010. The participants called for seeing nature and its services as the foundation for economic and social welfare. The meeting was also important for the further development of the Union’s activities in Europe.

From November 8^th 2006, BBF continues with the traditional lectures in the Biology Faculty of the University of Sofia. As usual the lectures will start every Wednesday at 18.30.

This year we will go further and from the theory will “jump” in the practice. Every two weeks BBF will organize study trip to different conservation regions or projects in Bulgaria and abroad.

BBF organizes meetings for the future nature Park Belasitza in the villages where the NP will be established.

Tomorrow BBF will present bright new exposition of its Visitor Center “Kaliakra”. The concept and the realization of the exhibition were appointed to Andriana Andreeva. She is very experienced not only in Bulgaria, but and abroad.

BBF invites you on the Public hearing of the Action Plan for the Balkan Chamois. We are waiting you on August 22nd in the hall of the Ministry of Environment and water (bul.Maria Luiza 22) at 10 a.m

Bee-honey cooperation “Strandja special honey” in cooperation with Municipality of Tzarevo, Association of the biology bee-keeping and Regional office for agricultural advices – Bourgas, organizing the Third international festival “Tzarevo – the kingdom of the Strandja honey”. The Festival is held under the patronage of the Mayor of Tzarevo and with the financial support of Biodiversity Foundation and GTZ.

Three teams of different experts collect BBF to evaluate river ecosystems, damaged by the floods in Rhodope region. For 5 days, 12 experts – botanists, zoologists, etc. will analyze the relations between the size and the type of the damages, different habitats, infrastructure and management of the rivers. The studies of Chepelarska, Arda, Vurbitza will be implemented.   

Volunteers from BBF and experts from NP Rila Directorate will count Wild Goats in Rila National Park on July 13-14. They will collect date for the age, gender and genes of the population.

MOEW assigned to BBF the preparation of the documentation for 4 new protected areas – “Tzigansko gradiste”, “Murzjan” and “Dolen”, as well as the nature monument “Kozi skali”, which are situated in Rudozem and Zlatograd Municipalities.

The proposals were made by BBF and strongly supported by Municipality of Zlatorad and Tourist Council of Rudozem.