CategoriesActivities20-05-2017, Bënçë, Tepelena. The “Protecting rivers” group conducted a meeting with the Bënçë village inhabitants to discuss the hydro-powers matter that are under construction in this area. Habitant’s concern was evident, as the dam would leave the village with no water. Bënça is a small village which main activities are farming, agriculture and collection of medicinal […]
CategoriesPress Release++ Success for nature conservation and affected residents ++ Tirana, May 3, 2017. Big win for the protection of Europe’s last big wild river, the Vjosa in Albania! Yesterday afternoon, the judges of the Albanian Administrative Court in Tirana announced their decision against the construction of the projected hydropower plant “Poçem”: for the time being, the dam must […]
CategoriesIn MediaVery few Albanians are aware that Vjosa, the largest river of southern Albania, is the last river in Europe, which, until now, has not changed its course”, says Professor Fridrich Shiemer, famous ecologist from the University of Vienna. 30 Albanian and foreign experts from Austria, Germany, Slovenia have gathered to study the Vjoses river for […]
CategoriesActivitiesAn initiative previously unheard of in Europe will be undertaken by more than 30 scientists from Albania, Austria and Germany, who will conduct scientific research in Vjosa for a week, focusing on the area where the Pocem HPP is planned to be built. . With this activity, scientists want to highlight the expected negative effects […]
CategoriesIn Media‘The civil society has sent the first environmental cause in the court in Albania to protect the rivers from hydro-power developments”, said Besjana Guri from EcoAlbania. It refers to the legal battle initiated by EcoAlbania, RiverWatch, Euronatur and 38 residents of Kutë village against the Poçem HPP. The request of the organizations was supported by […]
CategoriesIn MediaThe vice-president of the European Parliament, Ulrike Lunacek, a lover of Albanian nature, is one of the strongest lobbyists against the construction of hydropower plants on the Vjosa River. “The Vjosa River is the only one in Europe that is flowing freely”, she asserted during a meeting with journalists from Albania at the European Parliament […]
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