Lyubomir Ivanov

“ Due to its geographical diversity, population’s moderate density and uneven distribution, as well as the relatively early beginning of conservation, many valuable nature areas can still be found there. Some of them are unequalled elsewhere in Europe and properly belong to the world nature heritage. At the same time, the country’s socio-economic development goes along with insensitive and often shortsighted attitude toward nature; together with the incompleteness of the present conservation area network, this puts in jeopardy the future of Bulgaria’s nature heritage. ”

“ Bulgaria’s nature, not excluding conservation areas, is subject to systematic onslaught on behalf of narrow-minded interests. What is needed now is not just to oppose such practices, but to fight also for elimination of their consequences accumulated during the last few decades, in order to undermine the fait accompli tactics. ”

“ Their fragile environmental balance could hardly be maintained without ecologized human activity in the rest of the country and scaling intervention in devastated regions where the environment is unable to self-recover.
(3) ⁠ Conservation areas are exposed to transmitted air, water and soil pollution, anthropogenic changes in the microclimate, as well as noise pollution and visual intrusion. Therefore, the struggle for nature heritage preservation is inseparable from the struggle for sound environment. ”