There are 289 projects that match your search.
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2008
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5,100.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/08/14 |
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One of the main problems identified in the Prespa National park is that of overgrazing. One way of correcting this problem is by distributing the grazing pressure more evenly and over other areas. One of the difficulties in doing this is the fact ( ... )
nimals need water and do not support long walks back and forth from the watering point to the grazing grounds. The result is that the herds are kept close to the lake putting a high pressure on the forest.
Building new watering points contributes to distributing the herds and as the result lowers the pressure on the forest. SGP has helped in one previous project in the construction of 3 new
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Albania
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2008
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15,600.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/08/12 |
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The Karaburuni peninsula has been used traditionally winter pasture. The mild climate that is due to the warm and moist air masses of maritime origin creates suitable conditions for plants to grow. Twice the year animals and people undertake the ( ... )
al migration known as transhumance. Small shepherd communities settle in remote areas in the so called ?stans? for about 6 months. The life in these places has changed very little. Electricity is absent. Diesel generators apart from being bulky and costly to run are a serious fire hazard. Several times fires have started due to malfunctioning engines.
The relationship between the shepherds and
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2008
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1,300.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/08/11 |
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The aim of the project is to enhance public awareness regarding biodiversity conservation as well as promotion of some practical every day actions that leads to its protection. This project will help on raising public awareness regarding endangered ( ... )
s, as well as on improving the awareness on the important of environmental protection.
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2008
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25,871.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/08/04 |
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Rapid Assessment Survey 2005, provided strong evidence indicating that Patok has a high concentration of loggerhead (Caretta caretta) throughout the year (especially between April and August) and could be an important feeding ground for sea turtles. ( ... )
that many turtles come to Patok and we need to determine why since the answers to these questions should allow a management plan to be developed to reduce the impacts on marine turtles and their habitats in Albanian waters.
An important aspect of the research programme at Patok is to improve the capacity of Albanian scientists to monitor the marine turtle population in local waters. The
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2008
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5,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/08/09 |
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This project is part of a cofinancing agreement between GEF/SGP Albania and Milieukontakt. A similar agreement has been signed also by the Macedonian SGP.
Green Agenda is a participatory method for developing and implementing local sustainable ( ... )
pment strategies and plans with active involvement of the different sectors in the local community where the process is conducted.
The Green Agenda document includes an analysis as well as a strategic plan, an action plan and a monitoring plan. This document is adopted by the local authorities and implemented by the local community. One of the characteristics of the Green Agenda method however
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2008
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7,100.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/08/05 |
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Native bees are valuable crop pollinators. These wild bees help increase crop yields, and may serve as important insurance when honeybees are hard to come by. In addition to the direct benefit related to pollination, the awareness among farmers for ( ... )
insects translates into new and environmentally friendly agricultural practices such as reduced pesticide use, creation of hedgerows and riparian buffer zones and ultimately guiding them towards organic agriculture.
The project will work within a group of farmers ?BioAdria? that has already committed itself in the sustainable agriculture and ?Bio? products. This group has an established practice
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2008
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6,000.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/08/08 |
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The area of Karaburuni peninsula and Kanali Coast is of outstanding natural beauty representing one of the few remaining pristine coastal and marine habitats in Albania and in the Mediterranean. The marine environment and its rocky outcrops have ( ... )
isted as a suitable habitat for the Mediterranean Monk Seal due to its remoteness and low human disturbance. The topography and lack of freshwater has been the main reasons why this area has not been used for stable human settlements and preserved over centuries in its pristine condition.
The development of tourism in the Vlora Bay and in the south, create the opportunity that this area could be
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Albania
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Chemicals
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2008
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1,666.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/08/10 |
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Costal wates and transitional waters are more sensitive than others to the consequences of domestic and insdustrial discharges. Five miles north of Vlora, by the seashore, there is the site of a former chemical complex that used to produce ( ... )
ne alkali, vinyl cloride monomer and polyvinyl chloride. While the plant was s closed in 1992 it still poses a threat to the environment due to the high lelvel of environmentally contamination with mercury deriving from former chlorine-alkali electrolysis processes that used metallic mercury. The aim of this project is to carryout studies and to publish all results of the studies in this site
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2008
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17,834.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/08/06 |
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The first serious efforts for identifying native pig breeds were accomplished by the support of GEF/SGP in 2005. Outputs of this mission of identification, enriched by the results of other missions carried out in the frame of TCP/FAO project ( ... )
ity building to support in ? situ conservation and use of FAnGR?, as well as the information collected by EURONATURE & SAVE FOUNDATION, have provided evidence of the existence of native pigs in Albania. Among these results, the information of the existence of Siska type pigs, Spotted of Scutari and wattled pigs identified in Back Rrjoll, Velipoja region, is considered as the most important one.
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2007
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20,957.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/07/02 |
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The region of Prespa lakes is an internationally recognized hot spot of biodiversity with a full size GEF project being implemented transboundary to the three countries sharing the area. Ideally such FSP create an enabling environment into which ( ... )
smaller initiatives rise and develop complementing the activities of the big project. This project will complement the water-quality monitoring programme with biological indicators. Biological monitoring relatively recently has been adopted as suitable for the quality monitoring of water bodies since organisms act as integrators over time of the environmental parameters that otherwise could be
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Albania
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity
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2007
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10,300.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y2/07/07 |
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In Prespa National Park like elsewhere, livestock numbers increased tremendously after the system change in Albania around 1991, when private people were allowed to own livestock. Grazing in forests was intensified. After clear cutting, remaining ( ... )
and branches were taken away and the continuous utilization of regenerating trees led to the situation of partly completely degraded forest areas that can be observed today.
Today it is necessary to establish a socially acceptable scheme that redistributes the grazing pressure from the forest nearby villages into other areas within the park that can sustain harvesting while allowing for
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Albania
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International Waters
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2007
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5,800.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y2/07/09 |
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Shkodra Lake, Balkan?s largest lake and a RAMSAR protected area since February 2006, is getting progressively national and international attention for its biodiversity. Establishment of the Day Shkodra Lake, a symbolic date, aims at promoting ( ... )
tion of biodiversity of this lake; at the same time it supports sustainable development of the area. Activities that will be organized during this day (third Saturday of June) include: bilateral conference Albania-Montenegro, young people involvement, opening of picture gallery of Shkodra Lake, navigation at Shkodra Lake. All these activities intend to enhance awareness for the importance of
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2007
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47,500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y2/07/01 |
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Constructed wetlands are marshes built to treat contaminated water. Compared to conventional treatment methods, they tend to be simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly. These artificial wetlands also provide food and habitat for wildlife ( ... )
eate pleasant landscapes.
This technology holds a great promise for application in Albania, but for the moment the country lacks the know-how and the example of viable projects. The project has been developed and is going to be financed and implemented in collaboration with the ArtGold programme of UNDP-Albania. The technical oversight is being provided by IDEASS http://www.ideassonline.org
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2007
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9,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y2/07/03 |
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Albania has at the present a critical need for coupling environmental protection and restoration with economical development so that the locals can perceive and sense these two as an undivided part of the improved quality of living. Environmental ( ... )
ess has to be offered coaxed either with small infrastructure improving interventions or income generation activities so that an alliance is built on conceptual level between environmental protection and economical development.
This is the context into which GEF/SGP Albania has forged an alliance with GTZ in a common effort to enable the establishment of an environmentally friendly development
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2007
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14,687.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y2/07/10 |
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The economically profitable activities in the Prespa National Park and in the surrounding areas have almost disappeared after the system change in Albania around 1991. Sustainable wood harvesting, tourism, fishing and other typical economical ( ... )
ties that one expects to find in these areas are not running at profit margin. The result of the above is a fragile economy based on subsistence agriculture and goat keeping. Goats are the poor?s? man preferred animal since they are hardy animals and generally tend for themselves but can be quite destructive if are allowed access into a young regenerating forest. This is the situation in Prespa
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2007
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2,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y2/07/05 |
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Vurgu field is located south of Butrinti Lake and along the Butrinti channel. The area used to be a brackish wetland but it has been drained during the late 60s. At the present the lower part closer to the sea has been restored to its former salt ( ... )
status resulting in a significant increase in biodiversity. The remaining higher ground that is the focus of this project, at the present is used as low-grade pasture due to varying degree of salinity present in the soil. This project will evaluate the soil salinity and evaluate the possibility of creating islands of vegetation in the otherwise rather barren
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Albania
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2007
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46,624.00
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OP4 - Y1 (Jul 07-Jun08)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/07/03 |
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The project is to illuminate the entrance gallery to the Castle at the Gjirokastra UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Albania. The gallery is used by tourists as the main entrance to the neighboring armaments museum and to the castle ramparts, ( ... )
present it is dimly lit with artificial light which is supplemented by only limited natural light.
The present level of artificial light in the tunnel is neither adequate ? three 100 watt bulbs and two fluorescent spotlights - nor aesthetically appropriate. In addition due to serious power cuts, the lighting frequently doesn?t function.
The project will use renewable energy technology (solar
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2007
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39,485.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y2/07/15 |
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The hydrologic regime of Butrinti wetland complex has been greatly disrupted by the diversion of Bistrica River and there is a steady decline in the environment parameters of the lake. Instead of a complex mosaic of salt, brackish and freshwater ( ... )
ts today the lake is approaching marine strength waters. Typical marine species such as squid, octopus and jellyfishes have become common. There are practically no salinity gradient that once sustained a variety of freshwater and marine species and due to lack of flushing the lake has become eutrophic. The lake is continuously stratified with an anoxic zone starting in winter at approximately
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2007
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17,500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y2/07/13 |
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The future of the mountain communities in Albania is highly dependent on the establishment of a sustainable tourist market that values the landscape beauty as well as the rich and frequently quite original culture that has developed during centuries ( ... )
geographical isolation provided by the high mountain ranges. If such market is not established in time these communities will be abandoned and the cultural richness will disappear once forever only to be replaced by the culture of the new comers of a latter generations that might find these areas once again attractive.
The GEF Small Grants together with GTZ has been working since two years in
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Albania
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Biodiversity
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2007
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10,500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: ALB/SGP/OP3/Y2/07/14 |
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Until the end of the 1960s the Maliqi Lake in Albania formed an integral part of the region?s lake system including Ohrid and Prespa lakes. The Maliqi Lake was bordered by extensive marshlands of several 100 has, fed by the Devolli River that ( ... )
ates in south-eastern Albania forming the only continental swamp in the region. The Devolli river was channeled at the end of the 60s resulting in subsequent draining of the Maliqi Lake and the desiccation of the swamp.
Only about 45 hectares were preserved in a semi natural state that forms today the Maliqi forest. This forest is the only patch of flooded forest ecosystem that remains in
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