Nature should not be taken for granted. That is why GLOBUL Green supports the international environmental organization WWF, for a third consecutive year, in cleaning-up and conservating 11 of the unique Bulgarian nature parks and beautifying the sites for tourism and recreation.
TOGETHER WE CAN TURN GOOD IDEAS INTO REALITY
More than 3 600 volunteers joined the cleaning on May 14 - National Day of the Nature Parks 2011 and collected 12 t of garbage. The took part also in:
- cleaning tourist routes - paths, meadows, river beds;
- renovating amenities and trail markings;
- setting and refurbishing information boards.
This year we found the parks a bit cleaner.
It depends on all of us such cleaning initiatives to become needless in the future!
THE FUTURE IS IN THE PARK!
In Bulgaria there are 11 nature parks, which are the largest protected area in the country. Belasitsa, Zlatni Piasytsi, Persina, Sinite Kamuni, Shumensko Plato, Balgarka, Rusenski Lom, Rilski Manastir, Vratchanski Balkan, Strandja and Vitosha are visited annually by hundreds of thousands of tourists. In order to preserve the original state of the nature parks there is no system for collecting waste because:
- there is an organized waste disposal only in the settled parts of the country.
- nature parks are not city gardens but protected areas that are a home to rare and endangered plant and animal specimens as well as unique landscapes.
- nature parks cover large areas of protected land from which trash is hard to be transported.
- in nature parks the only trash containers are situated near cabins, pubs and other buildings. Collecting the waste is the responsibility of the owners who cover the transportation expenses.
- wild animals such as bears, can learn to eat in places where food scraps are left, thus, creating conflicting and even dangerous situations.
- wild animals can easily scatter the garbage at night, even if it is thrown in the trash during the day.
This means that everything you carry into the nature parks should be taken back with you. As throwing it in the bushes or under the first larger stone you see, with time pollutes the soil and water thus, being detrimental to all living beings. Bulgaria is really a piece of paradise and if we want nature to continue to thrive and have the unique bicentennial plane tree, (with the imposing circumference of 4 meters and height of 23 meters, located 17 km from Varna in the natural reserve Zlatni Piasaytsi) providing shade for tourists from around the world, we must act. Now!
The facts speak for themselves:
If your knowledge of the 11 nature parks is limited to Vitosha see what WWF has to say about them here
