Volunteers and foresters are to plant 10,388 trees - oak, linden, maple, wild pear, etc. on Saturday, November 13, near the village of Tserovo, region of Pazardzhik. The organizers of the event are Gorata.bg, Raya Ubenova and Nikola..
1,600 hectares of woodland has burnt in 219 wildfires in the country since the beginning of the year. That is why the Forests Agency is demanding the formation of a specialized aviation unit to help the efforts to extinguish wildfires. According to..
The fires have been contained but this should not calm us down, as the risk exists, Bulgaria's caretaker Prime Minister Stefan Yanev said. Answering criticism that this country sent firefighters and equipment to the Republic of North Macedonia when..
The campaign for planting trees across Bulgaria of gorata.bg continues this weekend. Despite the pandemic, 130 municipalities have joined the initiative so far. Since its beginning this spring, volunteers have been given about 100,000 trees of..
Today, citizens once again protested against the felling of a 70-year-old coniferous forest in the Gorna Traka area, near Varna. Protesters, who organised a petition for preserving the forest, warn that protests could turn into..
On February 4, 2021, a campaign will be launched for the purchase of land in forest areas owned by individuals. This was announced by the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture. T he funds that the state will allocate for this purpose are a little over 1..
A civil petition calls for a moratorium on the construction activities in a perimeter of 300 meters from the beach in the villages of Sinemorets, Varvara and Rezovo and in the town of Ahtopol, Tsarevo municipality, on the southern part of the Bulgarian..
Forests are, without any doubt, essential to the quality of human life. In Iceland, for example, people were even urged to go and hug a tree as a way to overcome the isolation because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Forests and woodland in the..
