ECO-LABS for Sustainability of Protected Areas and Coastal Environment

The project aims at improving the cooperation capacity for sustainable development of protected areas and coastal environment in the CBC region Vize-Sredets.
The project envisages construction activities in the Tabakhane Dere and to turn it and the area around it into a GREEN ECO-SPACE organized around an air pollution measuring station and environmental friendly activities for ecosystem monitoring in Vize (incl. coastal zones). An old building will be reconstructed and to turned it into a LABORATORY-CENTER for Environmental Monitoring and Biodiversity in Protected Areas in Sredets. The both ECO-centers will work together and they will host interactive laboratories ("BIOSPACE-KEEPERS" & "COAST-KEEPERS") for 80 children and young people who will be trained in the sustainable development of protected areas and coastal zones in the cross-border region of Vise and Sredets.
Environmental activities in the coastal zone and waste reduction at Panayir Isklesi in Vise will be implemented through joint voluntary campaigns. The project will create conditions for the sustainable implementation of specific activities for the protection of protected areas through conservation activities in the "Div bojur" (“Wild peony") protected area in Sredets.
A Common STRATEGIC ECO-ALLIANCE for the sustainability of protected areas and coastal environment will be created representing a common network to organize all activities and innovations aimed at achieving sustainable protected areas and clean coastal areas, as well as improving the quality of all common natural resources.