CategoriesPress ReleaseCommission: The Albanian Government to implement the recommendations issued in 2018 + The issue of the Pocem and Kalivac hydropower plants from the Bern Convention + Strasbourg, Tirana, 8 December 2019. The Standing Committee of the Berne Convention has decided to keep open the case against the Albanian government over the Poçem and Kalivac hydropower plants planned to be built […]
CategoriesIn Media Press ReleaseThe most prominent support for the Vjosa: Leonardo DiCaprio raises awareness about Europe’s last wild river – the Vjosa – and the threat she is facing on his Instagram! “This is one of Europe’s last wild rivers. But for how long?”, he writes. The Vjosa has become world famous, she is valued for her intactness. He also points to […]
CategoriesActivities Press Release++ International Wild Rivers Science Symposium and Wild Rivers Night held on October 18th, 2019 ++ World Rivers in an alarming state ++ Declaration to save the last intact rivers signed ++ On October 18th and 19th, Albania became a hotspot of freshwater science. Renowned scientists from USA, Japan and many European countries participated in […]
CategoriesPress ReleaseDisproportionate public subsidies for small hydropower in the Western Balkans have resulted in widespread environmental damage, finds a new study released today by CEE Bankwatch Network. Even though it is changing its incentives system, Albania is still paying the most in the region to small hydropower producers, shows the report. Fuelled by generous state-sponsored feed-in tariffs, […]
CategoriesPress ReleaseOn World Rivers Day, 150 national and international NGOs ask Prime Minister Edi Rama to stop the HPP projects and protect the Vjosa valley On the occasion of World Rivers Day, about 150 national and international organizations have sent an open letter to Prime Minister Edi Rama, asking the Albanian government to protect one of […]
CategoriesActivitiesIf you haven’t seen yet the ‘Blue Heart movie’, you can now find it online on youtube translated on 11 languages. In this film you’ll learn more about the battle for the Vjosa river, the effort to save the endangered Balkan lynx and the protest of the women of Kruščica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to protect […]
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