![[Albania] Albanian government fails to protect communities’ access to land and nature](https://perangua.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Sin-título-600x450.jpg "[Albania] Albanian government fails to protect communities’ access to land and nature")
Instead of increasing its energy security, Albania is pushing the construction of yet more hydropower, leading to thousands losing their land and the potential extinction of Europe’s rarest cat. The US International Development Finance Corporation, UK Export Finance agency and HSBC bank have not yet confirmed any interest in financing Skavica. Greenfield hydropower projects bring […]
Back in 2005 when 15 square kilometres of public property, an area the size of 2000 soccer fields, were privatized for 800’000 euros, almost nobody knew about the Ulcinj Salina.After the new owner tried to sell the same area for 300 times higher price civil society started to discover the real value of nature at […]
If Kenan invites you to a dinner at his mountain hut, there will be octopus and snow. If Kenan offers you a beer, it will be local craft beer. If Kenan proposes a morning walk, you will hike until you enjoy the sunset over a dozen mountains. If Kenan answers a question, he will go […]
Waters from Pindus, Nemërçkë and Gribe Mountains lead to Vjosa. Shepherd and fishermen tracks lead to Vjosa. Otters, kingfishers, eels and hundred of other rare species lead to Vjosa. Rafting, canyoning, climbing, hiking and biking tourists lead to Vjosa. The roads of Olsi Nika and Ulrich Eichelmann, activists in the campaign Save the Blue Heart […]
105 km from the Greek border, 212 km from Tirana, 72 km from Vlorë and additional 2 km of dirt road you need in order to reach an almost pristine place known as Gjipe Beach at the Albanian seacoast. The difficult approach makes this two hundred meters of sand hidden between the vertical cliffs of […]
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