On September 26, to mark World Rivers Day, we organized a kayaking event on the Zeta River. The goal of the event was to highlight once again the historical connection between humans and nature, the essential right to clean, drinkable water, and to recognise the river as a living entity that deserves the right to …
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At the end of July and mid-August, we organized two educational nature camps for children in Studeno, a highland area on Mount Prekornica. The four-day camps, titled “The Magic of the Bosnian Pine”, brought together over fifty children from Spuž and Danilovgrad, occasionally joined by other children already vacationing in the area with their families. …
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The Bojana Delta is the only area in Montenegro where you can experience dozens of different habitat types within just an hour’s walk — each home to a wide range of Mediterranean plant and animal species, many of which are rare, vulnerable, or endangered. In just sixty minutes, one can traverse sandy sea beds and …
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The Montenegrin Ecologists Society, in cooperation with NGO Mogul, organized the “Frog Day” event at Lake Šas in Ulcinj. Save the Frogs Day is an event dedicated to education and awareness-raising activities aimed at increasing public understanding of the threats facing frogs – the most diverse group of amphibians – and their importance in …
The turtle season is officially open. Freshwater turtles are among the most endangered reptiles in Southeast Europe. Yesterday, we continued our research on these species in Buljarica. In just one day, 320 turtles were caught – measured – and returned to their habitat. By the end of the season, we will collect data on freshwater …
Montenegro is a Mediterranean country with the highest percentage of land covered by wetlands – as much as 7.7% of its territory is made up of ponds, marshes, swamps, lagoons… Wetlands support great biodiversity in both plant and animal life, which gives Montenegro exceptional landscape value, but at the same time imposes a duty and …
We spent several days on Mount Prekornica with professors from the Faculty of Forestry in Belgrade, from whom we learned one of the languages of trees. We learned how to find and properly read the biological textbooks in which trees, through their rings, describe their most comfortable years (wide rings) and their most challenging ones …
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Montenegrin Ecologists Society (MES) has launched a project titled “From educating and connecting children with nature, through dendrochronological research, to raising awareness about climate change over the past few centuries in Montenegro!”, financially supported by the European Union. Through this project, MES will focus on the study of Bosnian pine forests – an endemic, relict …
The NGO Montenegrin Ecologists Society, in cooperation with the NGO Septentrion Environnement from Marseille, conducted 20 days of field research on the marine fish species – the dusky grouper. The research was carried out in the coastal area of the future marine protected area (MPA) – Katič (stretching from Skočiđevojka in the north to Queen’s …
