Website for the real problems and dangers for the nature environment in Bulgaria.
The Rila Mountains are home to one of the largest National Parks in Europe. It is a safeguarded place for national and world treasures – undisturbed wilderness, wild animals, and rare plants. People, for centuries, have lived in relative harmony with nature in the foothills of the mountains. That is, until recently. Now, the area is rapidly changing with the arrival of offshore companies that plan to invest millions of euros in large-scale ski-resorts ON THE TERRITORY OF RILA NATIONAL PARK.
The region of Mugla village is one of the most beautiful regions in the Rhodopes and at the same time one of the most underdeveloped. A region that the state has long forgotten and all that local people can count on is land. The exchange of these lands can only be defined in one way – theft. We are not talking here only about encroachment on protected areas, we are talking about violating people’s rights to own their land and not accept the creation of yet another “ski-wonder” as their cause.
Thousands of people gathered throughout Bulgaria this past July to demonstrate their overwhelming commitment to Strandja Nature Park, after the Supreme Administrative Court declared its creation invalid. Tzarevo Municipality launched a court case against the designation order of Strandja Nature Park, together with “Crash 2000,” a company constructing illegal buildings near Varvara village, after authorities stopped construction in March 2007.
Gold extraction that includes the use of cyanide become increasingly dangerous threat to the Bulgarian nature and, most importantly, to the life and health of the local people. Huge projects for gold extraction using the cyanide method are prepared for variety of Bulgarian regions, including the Eastern Rodope mountains, the Sredna Gora mountain and the Western Bulgarian mountains in the area of Tran. As investors of those projects appear the most notoriously known mine companies world-wide, whose management's background include criminal activities all around the world.
