Presenting the work of Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation in Chairite lakes - invaluable peatlands in the Western Rhodopes Тhe ground verification is part of the Balkania Route project financed under the EU-funded BESTbelt project - more info about the project - https://tinyurl.com/BalkaniaRoute https://www.europeangreenbelt.org/bes...

The Balkan green belt trail is part of an extraordinary ecological network and living memorial landscape along the former Iron Curtain, which divided the European continent into East and West for nearly 40 years. Along 24 countries and more than 12,500 kilometres – from the Barents Sea at the Russian-Norwegian border, along the Baltic Coast, through Central Europe and the Balkans to the Black and the Adriatic Sea – the border zone granted nature a pause and has created a zone of life. As the European Green Belt snakes from north to south it passes through a ge variety of European landscapes. Today, the European Green Belt forms the backbone of a Pan-European ecological network and provides a significant contribution to European "Green Infrastructure".

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