Germany’s DBU offering environmental protection, nature conservation fellowships
The German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, DBU) is offering fellowships for university graduates from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. The DBU awards up to 60 fellowships per year for advanced qualification in all fields of environmental protection and nature conservation. Highly […]
Top 3 in May: Smart Cities, Biodiversity, Bulgaria’s electricity export tariff
Our coverage of the Smart City SEE19 international conference held in Belgrade made it to the number one spot on our English-language Top 3 Most Read list for May. The list is also available for our portal’s Serbian/local language version. 1 – Smart city concept: digitalization, e-mobility, renewables, smart grids Urban sprawl requires and is […]
International Day for Biological Diversity: Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health
Eagles and falcons face extinction in Bosnia and Herzegovina, while endangered species in the country include the lynx, the wolf, and the brown bear. Olive trees are threatened by construction machinery on Montenegro’s Adriatic coast, while pits in Croatia’s karst rock, which holds some of the world’s richest underground habitats, have been turned into illegal […]
Speaking to IFIs may be only way for environmental activists to convey message to right address
Ana Colovic Lesoska, executive director at the Center for environmental research and information Eko-svest from Skopje, is one of six winners of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize, a first for the prestigious award to go to North Macedonia. This recognition followed Colovic Lesoska’s successful campaign to halt international lending for two hydropower plants, thereby protecting […]
World Bee Day: Pollinators key for food production, biodiversity dying off at alarming rate
Did you know that a man from the South-East European region is one of the fathers of modern beekeeping techniques? Anton Janša was born on May 20, 1734 on the territory of today’s Slovenia, and the United Nations have declared his birthday World Bee Day. Another reason this day is marked in May is the […]
EU Overshoot Day: 7% of world’s population uses nearly 20% of Earth’s biocapacity
If everybody in the world lived like EU residents, the world would have exhausted the Earth’s annual budget by May 10, which was the European Union’s Earth Overshoot Day 2019. Nature’s annual budget consists of food, fiber, timber, carbon absorption, and land to build infrastructure, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Central and Eastern […]
“Transformative change” urged to tackle nature decline as one million species face extinction
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has urged “transformative change” to tackle “unprecedented” rates of nature decline and species extinction, which are now likely to have grave impacts on people around the world. A landmark report by IPBES, which examines the relationship between economic development pathways and their impacts on nature, […]
Macedonian activist wins Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Foundation has announced six recipients of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s foremost award for grassroots environmental activists, according to a press release from the foundation. One of the awards has for the first time gone to North Macedonia, to Ana Colovic Lesoska, who has successfully campaigned to halt international lending […]