"LE BALKAN" joins efforts of two nature conservation NGOs:
Le Balkan-France Society  and Le Balkan-Bulgaria Foundation

They run joint biodiversity projects. 

Of these two, one develops international co-operation, 
which is put into practice at local and national level by the other. 

Their complementing each other is the key point of our concept. 

Strategy:

• Identification of original models in the field of nature protection and management and their transfer to Bulgaria.
• Adaptation of specific methods to suit local peculiarities by raising awareness and persuasion of local people.
• Creating possibilities for spreading those methods in other East European countries.

Main goals:

• To contribute to the conservation of endangered and rare ecosystems, natural habitats, plants and threatened animal species.
• To work out and execute national and international biodiversity conservation projects.
• To carry out research, monitoring and management work on different categories of protected areas and species.
• To raise public awareness about nature conservation problems.
• To publish "Branta" magazine in Bulgarian, French and English.
• To develop eco-tourism concept, together with "Branta-Tours" Ltd.

Signed petition

_CONTACTS

LE BALKAN

"Le Balkan" - Central Office	"Le Balkan" - Black Sea Division
National Museum of Natural History	Branta ruficollis Main Office
1, Tsar Osvoboditel blvd. BG-1000 Sofia, Bulgaria Tel:     ++359 887 30 87 53	Branta Conservation Centre BG-9670 Durankulak, Bulgaria Tel/Fax: +359 (0)888.47.66.01

lebalkan@lebalkan.org