The 2020 Citizens’ Award winner achieved significant advances in the protection of old-growth forests in Bulgaria through establishing an inventory of old-growth forests in state-owned forest habitats within Natura 2000 that all interested stakeholders agreed to. 

Their event was hosted by the Bulgarian Executive Forest Agency (EFA) and held in the “Vitosha“ Natura 2000 site, an old-growth forest south-west of Sofia in Bulgaria, on 20 July 2021.  Read more ….