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Month: October 2018

  • Celebrating birds!

    October was a busy month for celebrating internationally important days for birds. In the first week, we were celebrating the European Birdwatch Days by organizing birdwatching tours in the Skopje City Park and with the pupils from Goce Delchev primary school from Resen. This year was the 25th anniversary of the European Birdwatch days, which have been Europe’s most popular birdwatching platform to date.

    In the second week from October however, we celebrated the World Migratory Bird Days with birdwatching tours in Skopje City Park and in Gevgelija with the pupils from Vlado Kantarziev. The participants learned the basic birdwatching principles and discussed the benefits and challenges of bird migration.

    Approximately 60 participants took part in the tours and worked in direct contact with the bird team of MES. The organization of the birdwatching tours is part of MES’s effort to popularize this world trend to the pupils and public in Macedonia.

  • Adriatic flyways 4 – Macedonia

    Adriatic flyways 4 – Macedonia

    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1534241209987{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Time frame: 2018-2022

    Funding: MAVA Foundation

    Coordinating beneficiary: Euronatur Foundation, Germany

    Associated beneficiaries: Association BIOM (BirdLife Croatia), Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia (BPSSS, BirdLife Serbia), Nase Ptice (Bosnia and Hercegovina), Albanian Onithological Society (AOS, Albania), Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania (PPNEA, Albania).

    Project goal: Monitoring bird electrocution and collision with medium-voltage pylon lines in Municipality Ceshinovo-Obleshevo and wider Ovche Pole region, collaboration with key stakeholders (Municipality Ceshinovo-Obleshevo, Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Ministry of Economy, EVN Macedonia) on dangerous pylon lines insulation/retrofiting, installing Stork platforms i attempt to monomoze negative pylon effects, and organizing knowledge and good practice exchange study tours for key stakeholders.

     

    Contact person: Danka Uzunova, uzunova@mes.org.mk[/vc_column_text][mk_divider style=”shadow_line” margin_bottom=”30″][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h3″ size=”30″ force_font_size=”true” size_smallscreen=”30″ size_tablet=”25″ size_phone=”22″ font_family=”none”]MES News[/mk_fancy_title][mk_blog style=”thumbnail” grid_image_height=”300″ cat=”371″ exclude_post_format=””][/vc_column][/vc_row]

  • MES becomes Full Partner to BirdLife International

    MES becomes Full Partner to BirdLife International

    Since September 2018, MES is the official Full Partner to BirdLife International for Macedonia. The official designation ceremony took place in Belgium on the BirdLife’s Global Partnership Meeting. MES’s General Secretary Metodija Velevski PhD. accepted the acknowledgement, as he has been included in the organization’s Partnership processes from the very beginning.

    The Partnership to BirdLife International process started in 2006, when MES was designated a BirdLIfe Affiliate in Macedonia. In the next 12 years, MES increased the number of employees working on over ten projects on bird research, conservation and protection, included consecutive educational bird activities for pupils and published the scientific paper on identifying the national Important Bird and biodiversity areas (IBAs).

    On this Global Partnership Meeting, two local collaborators of MES were awarded with certificates for their long-term collaboration with MES and continuous bird conservation, protection and promotion efforts on a local level. Ms. Violeta Janeva from Municipality Cheshinovo-Obleshevo and Mr. Emil Lisicanec from NCA Aquila Kavadarci were recognized and appointed as BirdLife’s Nature’s Heroes for Macedonia, joining the hundred such other heroes from around the world.

  • Leaflet for bike trails on Osogovo mountain

    As part of the project “Supporting a sustainable future for people and nature in the Osogovo mountain”, as a result from the component for development of sustainable tourism in the region three leaflets for bike trails were made.

    The leaflets are available on the following links:

    Easy trаil

    Medium and hard trаil

    Bike trail – Ponikva