national park

Ohrid - Peshtani expressway project, Macedonia

Briefing | May 11, 2016

The Ohrid-Peshtani expressway project - financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development via a EUR 160 million loan for the National Roads Programme - involves the construction of a new section on the A3 express to the Albanian border. The new 12.5 kilometre section is planned to pass through the Galicica national park - a rare and important natural site with
abundant biodiversity, that was listed as an emerald site (a future Natura 2000
site) and was designated in 2014 part of UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

Institution: EBRD

Theme: Transport

Bogus logic in Ukraine: A nature reserve not worth protecting

If you thought the purpose of a nature reserve is to protect wildlife from disruptive human interference, then you're wrong – at least when it comes to nature that's in the way of electricity infrastructure in Ukraine.

Tags: Dnister energy exports energy security environmental protection national park transmission lines Ukraine CEE EU neighbourhood

Institution: EBRD

Theme: Energy & climate

Hydro power plants endanger the Balkan lynx in Macedonia

A fact-finding mission to Macedonia has confirmed our concerns that two planned hydro power plants are set to destroy important natural habitats in the Mavrovo National Park.

Tags: biodiversity dams hydropower lynx national park Natura2000 protected areas water Balkans

Institution: EBRD, World Bank Group

Theme: Energy & climate, Other harmful projects

BTC pipeline court case in Tbilisi, Georgia on January 20

January 15, 2004

The democratic values of Mikhail Saakashvili's Georgia will come under scrutiny next week when Georgian environment group Green Alternative brings legal proceedings against the Georgian government and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Company (BTC Co).

Institution: EBRD

Theme: Energy & climate, Other harmful projects

Tags: BTC, court case, environmental protection, local impacts, national park, transparency, Caucasus