Yesterday in Bihać, an agreement on cooperation between the World Wide Fund for Nature(WWF) and National Park ‘Una’ was signed between manager of the NP ‘Una’ Amarildo Mulić and representative of WWF Leon Kabe.
This cooperation is the result of three year plan of WWF to connect all national parks in the area of former Yugoslavia and Albania, to promote them as the new international tourist brand, and to offer the support to local population in the development of local tourist capacities.
Project is called Parks of the Dinaric Range, and already several conferences, study trips, workshops, trainings and other activities were held.
‘Our aim is the evaluation of the benefit of protected areas, development of sustainable tourism that contributes to protection of nature, and adapting it to climate changes, making the network of protected areas as a part of the EU through the ecological network ‘Natura 2000’, using EU Funds for protected areas, and the key topic in the protection of nature is recognising the value of protected areas’, said Leon Kabe.
After they signed the treaty, a workshop on the topic ‘Methodology of Evaluation of Protected Areas’ was held, and the project ‘Parks of the Dinaric Range’ was presented and the training for using the assessment and information gathering tools was held as well.
Yesterday, workers of the NP and associates of WWF started additional activities of the project; to get the certificate of EUROPARC for sustainable tourism, which would put NP ‘Una’ on the world tourist map.
(ekapija.ba)
