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World Environment Day

Today we celebrate World Environment Day. Every year a topic is chosen to focus people's attention on a specific environmental problem and this year the topic is Biodiversity. The message of this day is that all people on the planet must join forces and rethink our relationship with nature so that we can protect it. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and its partners are launching the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), a global initiative...

International Day for Biological Diversity

Every year on May 22 we celebrate the day of biological diversity. Bulgaria ranks as one of the first places in Europe in terms of its biodiversity, and the protected areas in the country are the core for its protection. The territory of Rila Monastery Nature Park preserves a significant part of the flora and fauna of Bulgaria. You can learn which are the most characteristic plants in the park from the presentation prepared by Angela Vasileva Vasileva, a student from the...

Bear photographed in Rila Monastery Nature Park

Today, the Directorate of the Rila Monastery Nature Park received a video showing a bear with two bears crossing the road under the Rila Monastery. The shots are unique, as in recent years the park's specialists have managed to find only traces that prove the vital activity of the species in the area. It is good to know that the bear is an endangered species included in the Red Book of Bulgaria, in addition, the brown bear is an indicator of primary wildlife, so it is...

Maintenance of conservation status of natural habitat 6430

In 2019 on the territory of the Rila Monastery Nature Park began activities to improve the conservation status of natural habitat 6430 "Hydrophilic communities of tall grasses in the plains and in the mountain to the alpine zone."