The mountain ecosystems of Kukes region are of a great biodiversity importance and economic value to the neighboring people. This project aims to advance the efforts already undertaken in the Kukes region to enhance sustainable economic development and support a marked-based economy. Typically low income rural communities in Albania rely on goats for their subsistence level household economy. The high grazing pressure combined with unsustainable forestry in the past results in a destructive overgrazing of the forest habitat.

Together with the World Bank initiative for the creation of communal forests, this project through Apiculture, as a type of green enterprise, will provide niches for alternative income generation and diversified agricultural activity that likely will break the vicious circle of forest degradation.