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Many years, the ambitious conservationist pushed hard for the German Green Belt to become a nature reserve. Now, his efforts have been awarded by the local government.

What a great success: After strong and long efforts, North Macedonia’s Osogovo mountains officially have turned into a protected area! The decision by the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia to establish the country’s very first Protected Landscape (IUCN category V) presents a crown jewel in the 14-years work of the Macedonian Ecological Society (MES).

What a thrilling moment! Our friends from the Macedonian Ecological Society (MES) share this photo of Lisa, a radio-collared Balkan lynx in Mavrovo National Park.

This year’s peculiarity continues also for the members of the European Green Belt Association as they holt their general assembly on 5 November 2020 online. Despite travel restrictions due to Covid-19 and partly great geographical distances between the members’ offices, the event’s atmosphere was connective and charming.

For more than 40 years, the Cold War imposed a special regime on the border areas between East and West Europe, militarising them and preventing their management and use. What have they become? A Photo competition tries to reveal answers.

The local action group LAG Korab-Koritnik is an initiative to create the first local action group for a protected area in Albania. Such structure will combine and represent different sectors and active citizens of the region with the main goal of nature conservation and the promotion of sustainable development.

On Saturday 19th September 2020 a friendly collaborative meeting of representatives of Czech and Bavarian conservation CSOs came together in the transboundary protected area of the Šumava Natural Park and in the Bavarian Forest National Park to celebrate this year‘s European Green Belt Day. The aim: To strengthen mutual collaboration and skil-sharing between the participating CSOs.

Young participants from different parts of Turkey came together for a bird monitoring camp organized by the Association of Back to Nature Youth and Sport Club this autumn. An exciting experience for 7 days.

Faced with numerous threats and being at the very edge of extinction the last breeding pair of imperial eagles in Serbia found their last resort at the Special Nature Reserve (SNP) “Pastures of the Great Bustard” in Northern Banat region of Serbia. All with help of committed conservationists.

These days in autumn 2020, people in Germany are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – an event for conservationists to claim: nature deserves attention, too.