Our vision is a just, responsible and conscientious society where healthy citizens live sustainably in well-being and harmony with the environment.
Our strategic objectives for 2016-2020 are:
Eko-svest’s main activities are clustered under three topics:
We are still a new member to the EEB and at this moment for us, getting to know the members is of great importance. We see a potential in joint collaboration on various projects. As a pre-accession country, our legislation is not yet in line with the EU directives and being in the EEB always brings in the latest developments in the area of environmental protection, which is very useful in our everyday work with the institutions.
The long campaign to save Mavrovo NP from damaging hydropower projects resulted in a success this year (2017). In this campaign we engaged more than 100 scientists who demanded abandoning of these large hydropower projects in the park’s territory. We have directed our efforts towards the interested International Financial Institutions (World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development – EBRD) into arguing that such projects are not allowed in national parks category II areas. A Bern Complaint was filed for this case in 2013 and numerous cases on national level have been initiated. After the Bern Convention recommendation, the World Bank stepped away from the Lukovo Pole project, and after the environmental permit for the Boskov Most HPP project was annulled by the national court, the EBRD cancelled this project in early 2017.
Emma Ernsth, Membership and Development Manager, European Environmental Bureau