Besides all the shooting and bombing, there are plenty of opportunities for recreation and vacationing in the Balkan republics. Here are new collections of articles and tips about Eco-touring in Albania, Serbia/ Yugoslavia, and Macedonia. Can readers here dig up anything on touring in Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, et al? It's good to have the full story. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.sonic.net/~ric * ICQ# 19633976 * * *** SkeptiChat: sliding down the razor-blade of life *** now featuring SkeptiNews: All The News That's Fit To Question email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SkeptiChat archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm Anomaly archives: www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5840/files.htm
Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe http://www.rec.org/ Report on Albania: Fact Finding Mission April 1994 http://www.rec.hu/REC/Publications/CountryReports/Albania/contents.html http://www.rec.org/REC/Publications/CountryReports/Albania/chapter3.html >3.4. Nature Conservation > >In Albania there are 6 National Forests with a surface of 8,040 ha: Lura >(800 ha, Divjake (780 ha), Llogara (810 ha), Bredhi i Drenoves (830 ha), De >Thethi (2,430 ha) and Dajti (2,390 ha). All these parks are under permanent >threat of human activities such as hunting, wood cutting etc. The park >management is insufficient. > >Beside this there are 24 nature reserves and 2000 nature monuments. The >protection of these areas is mainly on paper. > >Due to public pressure, in 1994 hunting was forbidden in Albania, which led >to some improvements in the protected areas such as the Karavasta Lagoon in >the Divjake National Park, the most western nesting site in Europe of the >endangered Dalmatian Pelican. > >36% of the country is covered with forests. Due to an insufficient >management of these areas and illegal cutting of trees for private heating, >the number of trees is declining.[10] Deforestation is a problem in almost >all rural areas of Albania. http://www.rec.org/REC/Databases/NGODirectory/NGODirectory.FM?country=Albani a 1.Agrarian Cooperation Union of Albania - Albania, Tirana 2.Albanian Association of Geological Engineering - Albania, Tirana 3.Albanian Association of Public Health - Albania, Tirana 4.Albanian Biologists' Association - Albania, Tirana 5.Albanian Didactic Scientific Speleological Association - Albania, Tirana 6.Albanian Ecological Club - Elbasan - Albania, Elbasan 7.Albanian Ecological Club - Fier - Albania, Fier 8.Albanian Ecological Club - International Friends of Nature - Albania, Tirana 9.Albanian Ecological Club - Kruja - Albania, Kruja 10.Albanian Ecological Club - Lezha - Albania, Lezha 11.Albanian Ecological Club - Librazhd - Albania, Librazhd 12.Albanian Ecological Club - Lushnja - Albania, Lushnje 13.Albanian Ecological Club - Mirdita - Albania, Tirana 14.Albanian Ecological Club - Tirana - Albania, Tirana 15.Albanian Geophysical Association/Geophysical and Geochemical Section of Tirana - Albania, Tirana 16.Albanian Society for the Protection of Birds and Mammals - Albania, Tirana 17.Albanian Termotechnical Association - Albania, Tirana 18.Albanian Youth Environmentalists' Club - Albania, Tirana 19.Aquarius - Albania, Tirana 20.Association for the Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania - Albania, Tirana 21.Association for the Protection and Preservation of the Natural Environment - Berat - Albania, Berat 22.Association for the Protection and Preservation of the Natural Environment - Korca - Albania, Korca 23.Association for the Protection and Preservation of the Natural Environment - Shkodra - Albania, Shkodra 24.Association of Inland and Coastal Water Conservation and Protection - Albania, Tirana 25.Children's Environmental Club - Albania, Tirana 26.Divjaka Eco - Tourism - Albania, Divjaka 27.Environment and Development Association - Albania, Tirana 28.Environmentalists' Club of Pogradec - Albania, Pogradec 29.Eyes of Time - Albania, Pogradec 30.Geographical Association - Shkodra - Albania, Shkodra 31.Gramshi Environmentalists - Albania, Gramsh 32.Hygienists' Association - Gjirokastra - Albania, Gjirokaster 33.Hygienists' Association - Korca - Albania, Korca 34.Hygienists' Association - Shkodra - Albania, Shkodra 35.Kadmi and Harmonia - Albania, Pogradec 36.Land - Air - Water Environmental Association - Albania, Tirana 37.Mass Media and Environment Association - Albania, Tirana 38.Miredita Association of Geological Engineering - Albania, Rubik 39.National Association for the Protection of Wild and Domestic Animals and Fowls - Albania, Tirana 40.National Hygienists' Association - Albania, Tirana 41.Pearl Environmental Youth Club - Albania, Tirana 42.Pearl Environmental Youth Club - Korca - Albania, Korca 43.PNL Environmental Youth Club - Albania, Tirana 44.Private Beekeepers' Association - Tirana - Albania, Tirana 45.Rainbow Youth Environmental Association - Albania, Shkodra 46.The National Flowers Association - Albania, Tirana 47.Tourism and Environment Association - Albania, Pogradec 48.Transboundary Wildlife Association - Albania, Korca 49.Young Ecologist Association - Albania, Tirana -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from GREEN-TRAVEL send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with ONLY unsubscribe green-travel > in the message body. If this fails, forward the message you > receive to the List Owner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NEVER SEND UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO THE WHOLE LIST! --------------------------------------------------------------------
Republic of Macedonia Ministry of Urban Planning, Construction and Environment http://www.mupce.gov.mk/ Natural Heritage: The State of Natural Rarities and Values http://www.mupce.gov.mk/page4a.html Review of the Protected Natural Heritage in the Republic of Macedonia http://www.mupce.gov.mk/page8a.html Ohrid Lake http://www.mupce.gov.mk/page12a.html Jasen Forest Reserve http://fr-jasen.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from GREEN-TRAVEL send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with ONLY unsubscribe green-travel > in the message body. If this fails, forward the message you > receive to the List Owner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NEVER SEND UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO THE WHOLE LIST! --------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:36:12 +0200 From: office <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: National Tourism Organization of Serbia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Information Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO Dear Mr. Endicott, Appreciating your interest in the causes and the consequences of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, we can recommend you the following western web sites: 1. http://www.transnational.org 2. http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo 3. http://www.iacenter.org 4. http://www.jbs.org/Focus/focus_kosovo.htm 5. http://www.jbs.org/tna We also recommend you two articles: 1. Analysis: US foreign policy - Between bombs and bananas by Martin Woollacott, The Guardian, Tuesday, April 6, 1999 2. Serbs had little choice - Kosovo peace accord not what we think, by Prof. Ronald L. Hatchett, Houston Cronicle - Outlook, Sunday, March 28th,1999. We also recommend you some of our web sites: 1. http://www.yutarget.com 2. http://alert.eunet.yu 3. http://www.serbia-info.com NATIONAL TOURISM ORGANIZATION OF SERBIA -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from GREEN-TRAVEL send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with ONLY unsubscribe green-travel > in the message body. If this fails, forward the message you > receive to the List Owner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > NEVER SEND UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO THE WHOLE LIST! --------------------------------------------------------------------
