Gordon Paul, Author at Perangua

+34 644793037

Login
Sign up

Home
About us
- Who we are
- Core Team
Campaigns
- Campaign map
- Campaign categories
Get started
Newsroom
FAQ
Contact Us
JOIN US

All posts by Gordon Paul

Nothing Found

It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.

Search for:

Share with the world

Join the movement

Search for:

RECENT ARTICLES

[Albania] Albanian government fails to protect communities’ access to land and nature
🇰🇬 [Kyrgyzstan] ⛰️ Glacier Protection Law Now!
🇦🇱 [Albania] 🐟 Valbona BioBlitz – Rosemary
🇪🇸 [Spain] 🐦 Where is biodiversity on the beach?
🇹🇷 [Turkey] 🌊 The Last Monk Seals of the Sea of Marmara

How can we help you?

Please feel free to contact us with any question or concern you might have regarding our platform.

In Perangua we believe that a network of activists and conscious travelers can make a change in every remote place of the world.

COUNTRIES

– All – (13)
Albania (4)
Armenia (1)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
Bulgaria (1)
Georgia (1)
Kyrgyzstan (1)
Laos (1)
Montenegro (1)
Spain (1)
Turkey (1)

TAGS

2020 2022 Active citizenship Activism Act now Balkans BioBlitz Biodiversity preservation Biological research Biology Bulgaria Central Asia Citizen science Climate change Construction in sensitive areas Culture Dam Earth day Environmental activism Environmental protection Europe Glaciers Guest blogpost Hydropower Local communities Marmara Sea Mining Mountains Nature Nature research Nature science Nature travel News Pirin Pirin National Park Protection of birds REWILD Institute Save Pirin Science Sustainable tourism Travel destinations Turkey Water management

Perangua is a global network of activists and volunteers, including travelers, experts and organizations with the main objective of saving nature and sustainable traditional livelihoods. The information about local environmental campaigns is too scarce, the affected areas too remote and the tools to connect with like-minded people too rare – and so, in 2017 Perangua was born to help bridge these gaps.

Follow us on Instagram

Seven Reasons to #StopUpperHorizons No.4: Wetland

Seven Reasons to #StopUpperHorizons

No.4: Wetlands

Upper Horizons will destroy two wetlands of international importance: Hutovo Blato and the Neretva Delta.

Hutovo Blato in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Neretva Delta in Croatia are two unique wetlands on the Adriatic bird migration flyway. They are protected under the Convention on Wetlands as wetlands of international importance.

If Upper Horizons is built, they will disappear, affecting birds, fish, amphibians and plants.

The water that feeds Hutovo Blato will be diverted towards the Dubrovnik hydropower plant.

Dabar hydropower plant and Upper Horizons will leave even less water in the Neretva Delta and will make it saline. The Neretva Delta is a very important area for agricultural production and is already suffering from salinization of the soil.
Protect the hidden rivers of BiH!

7️⃣ Reasons to #StopUpperHorizons No.3️⃣

7️⃣ Reasons to #StopUpperHorizons

No.3️⃣ Rivers

Upper Horizons would divert 85% of the water flows of Buna, Bunica and Bregava rivers into the Bileca Reservoir

The Upper Horizons project would involve closing or drying of several sinkholes. This would endanger the water flow to the iconic Buna, Bunica and Bregava rivers that are of crucial importance to towns and villages in the Federation of BIH, like Blagaj, Hodbina and Stolac.

According to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Dabar HPP – the largest in the Upper Horizons scheme – more than 85 per cent of the water from the Biograd sinkhole would be diverted towards the Bileća artificial reservoir. The Ponikva sinkhole and other s that feed Buna and Bregava would also be left with almost no water after the building of two new reservoirs and channelling of the Dabarsko and Fatničko polje.

The water that now goes to the Buna, Bunica and Bregava will be used in the existing Lower Horizons hydropower scheme and most of it will not be returned to the Neretva basin.

As observed with Lower Horizons, in reality even the minimum planned to be left in some of the rivers - according to the EIA - will not be monitored or enforced.

#StopUpperHorizons #GornjiHorizonti #UpperHorizons #NoDam #Hydropower #RiverProtection, #KarstEcosystems #Rivers #Karst #BIH #NeretvaRiver #NeretvaScienceWeek, #BunaRiver #BregavaRiver #Olm #Telestesdabar #Telestesmetohiensis, #Compensation, #Activism #Environment #EnvironmentalActivism #NatureProtection #NatureConservation, #jaBiHdatecem #BalkanRivers #Actnow

7️⃣ Reasons to #StopUpperHorizons Project in B

7️⃣ Reasons to #StopUpperHorizons Project in BiH

No. 2️⃣

Upper Horizons will affect villages in Republika Srpska, the Federation of BiH 🇧🇦 and even Croatia 🇭🇷

⚬ In Republika Srpska: four unique karst fields (the Gatačko, Nevesinjsko, Dabarsko and Fatničko polje) would be completely destroyed and traditional livelihoods would be lost. In Nevesinjsko polje several villages will be flooded, and many more will lose their agricultural land.

⚬ In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Upper Horizons would involve closing or drying out several sinkholes, which would endanger the water flow to the iconic Buna, Bunica and Bregava rivers that are of crucial importance to towns like Blagaj and Stolac. These rivers will be left with less than 15% of their water, which will endanger tourism, fishing, and agriculture.

⚬ In Croatia: the project would significantly decrease the flow of the river Neretva, of which the Buna, Bunica and Bregava are important tributaries. The Neretva delta, an important agricultural area, is already suffering from salination, but with even less fresh water, the process could irreversibly damage the local economy.

#StopUpperHorizons
Protect the hidden rivers of BiH! ✊

7⃣ Reasons to #StopUpperHorizons in BiH🇧🇦

7⃣ Reasons to #StopUpperHorizons in BiH🇧🇦

No. 1⃣ Species🔸 the olm, three endemic fish species and invertebrates that have not yet been researched🔸

Species that are found only in the karst fields and nowhere else are likely to be driven to extinction.

If the Upper Horizons scheme is built, karst rivers, caves, and springs will be left with almost no water even before their biodiversity has been properly studied.

The olm, a unique blind cave salamander, is one of the species most vulnerable to these changes. It can live more than 100 years in a single cave and depends on the spring floods to feed on the nutrients they bring. Many of its populations are already impacted by existing hydropower plants and water pollution, and it has nowhere else to go.

Three different endemic fish species called ‘gaovica’ by the local people (Telestes dabar, Telestes metohiensis, Delminichthys ghetaldii) would probably be driven to extinction by changes in the rivers caused by the channels and tunnels of Upper Horizons.

In some of the caves impacted by the Upper Horizons, there are unique species of invertebrates that have not yet been researched.

Protect the hidden rivers of BiH!
#GornjiHorizonti #UpperHorizons #NoDam #Hydropower #RiverProtection #KarstEcosystems #NeretvaRiver #NeretvaScienceWeek #BunaRiver #BregavaRiver #Olm #Telestesdabar #jaBiHdatecem #BalkanRivers

[BREAKING 🚨] Yesterday night the EU sealed a de

[BREAKING 🚨] Yesterday night the EU sealed a deal on the Law to #RestoreNature! Not perfect, but with some good targets for the countries:
🌾Farmland: to increase high-diversity landscape features (HDLF), the grassland butterfly index and the stock of organic carbon in cropland mineral soil
🍂Forests: to enhance biodiversity, to increase the indicators such as standing and lying deadwood and the common forest bird index
🌊Seas: to restore 30% of habitats, including seagrass and sponge and coral beds.
The text includes a requirement to prevent significant deterioration of areas subject to restoration.
#EU #europeancommission #euparliament #NatureRestoration #restaurarlanaturaleza #trumpeterfinch #picoidestridactylus #bucanetesgithagineus #threetoedwoodpecker #europeanforests #farmlandbirds #perangua #peranguaeu #marinebirds #birding #birdwatching #naturetravel #environmentalcampaign

#StopUpperHorizons Bosnia and Herzegovina is home

#StopUpperHorizons

Bosnia and Herzegovina is home to the largest undiscovered karst rivers, caves, and springs in Europe.

These hidden ecosystems are seriously threatened by the Upper Horizons hydropower project.

Consisting of a series of dams, diversion tunnels, hydropower plants and channels, the project will completely change the natural hydrography of eastern Herzegovina.

It would have devastating impacts on underground karst, wetlands and rivers, including on the river Neretva.

Due to the complexity of the project, its limited assessment, and the hidden nature of the karst fields and rivers, few people outside the affected areas are aware of these issues.

Protect the hidden rivers of BiH!

#GornjiHorizonti #UpperHorizons #NoDam #Hydropower #RiverProtection #KarstEcosystems #NeretvaRiver #NeretvaScienceWeek #BunaRiver #BregavaRiver #Olm #Telestesdabar #jaBiHdatecem #BalkanRivers

⚠️ You thought the fight for the Nature Restor

⚠️ You thought the fight for the Nature Restoration Law is over? It isn’t!

The Nature Restoration Law made headlines back in July when the European Parliament adopted its position on the law. But that was not the end of the story.

Right now, the @eucouncil, the @europeancommission, and the @europeanparliament are negotiating the final content of the law to #RestoreNature. On the 9th of November, they will come to a final deal!

We call on all the negotiators to ensure a law that is fit for addressing the global climate and biodiversity emergencies.

To be meaningful, this law needs to include:
🌱 Effective restoration of agricultural ecosystems with targets for restoring drained peatlands
🌱 Quantified, time bound and enforceable targets in and outside Natura 2000 areas for all habitats
🌱 Non-deterioration of ecosystems
🌱 Implementable marine targets
🌱 Dedicated and additional funding
🌱 Clear public participation and access to justice provisions

Find out more: www.restorenature.eu

It’s time to #RestoreNature!

🇲🇪 [Montenegro] 🐏Sinjajevina hosts an int

🇲🇪 [Montenegro] 🐏Sinjajevina hosts an international conference promoting the ‘protection through use’ of upland environments and rural areas

An international conference and scientific field mission is held in Sinjajevina and the nearby town of Kolašin, because of the unique and outstanding natural and cultural heritage of the mountain. During more than three years the Italian University of Genoa (Italy), the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), the University of Toulouse (France), the University of Granada (Spain), the University of Durham (Great Britain) and the University of Montenegro among others, worked together in a research about Rural Heritage and Sustainable practices of mountain landscapes in Europe. Between 19 and 21 October 2023, the core of this international team co-funded by the EU, and composed by 20 scientists from five countries, are visiting Sinjajevina.

Sinjajevina is one of the last places in Europe where traditional ecological farming continues to exist in equilibrium with the environment – holds some of the most extraordinary culinary products of outstanding quality and assures an expanded biodiversity dependent on the traditional pastoralism.

Pablo Domínguez, Environmental Anthropology Senior Researcher at CNRS (France) says: “SCIENCE with capital letters has come to study and publicly reaffirm these values of Sinjajevina, while fully conscious that it is under the severe threat of a military ground creation, as well as of possible future massive tourism like in the neighboring Durmitor”

Milan Sekulovic, President of the Save Sinjajevina Civic Initiative says: “The conference is celebrated three years after the beginning of the resistance camp that stopped military exercises at Sinjajevina in 2020 and since then has not allowed any munition to be dropped on this territory.”

#Skavicadam Albanian court to scrutinise special law for U.S. contractor Bechtel ✊

Nature conservation and human rights organisations have secured an important first milestone in the fight against the planned 210 MW #Skavica hydropower plant in the Albanian municipalities of Kukës and Dibër.

A constitutional complaint submitted by the @albanianhelsinkicommittee and the Black Drin Association, with the support of @euronatur and @ceebankwatch has now been accepted for trial in public plenary.

‘With 41 villages and more than 2500 houses in Dibër municipality threatened by the project, Skavica’s social impacts may be among the worst of any dam built in Europe in the 21st century. Residents have been fighting against Skavica for years. The vast majority doesn’t want the dam,’ says Majlinda Hoxha, coordinator of the Group of Rural Activists of Dibra.

Read more at the press release (link in story)

#environmentalactivism #hydropower #nodams #skavica #activism #humanrights

Follow on Instagram

Sitemap

Home
About us
Campaigns
Get started
Newsroom
FAQ
Contact Us

Newsletter

Get the latest updates critical to our planet.

Leave this field empty if you're human:

Copyright 2023 - Perangua | Website developed by the team of Perangua & Artemisandco.net | FAQ | Legal notices

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Cookie settings ACCEPT

Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.

Necessary

Always Enabled

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.

Non-necessary

Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.

SAVE & ACCEPT

Login

Don't have an account? | Forgot Password

Sign up

Sign up as a volunteer

Already Registered?

Forgot Password

Don't have an account? | Already Registered?

Contact the campaign leader

Claim Business

Can’t read the image? click here to refresh.

Select Date

Select Member

Number of Hours

Select Month/Week/Day/Slots

Month

Week

Day

Number of Month/Week/Day

All Booked
Unavailable

Please select date to show timeslot.

EN

ES