Dutch environmental activists appeal for boycotting Bansko ski-resort
[ 17.10.2006 ]
 Dutch citizens expressed their concern with the continuous demolition of the mountains in Bulgaria by placing protest banners in the city center of Amsterdam.
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Stone Slides Threaten the Mountaineers in Pirin
[ 14.09.2006 ]
 Water from the ski tracks is diverted to the Demyanitsa river valley which results in slides cutting off the road to the Demyanitsa hut. The negatives of the Bansko ski zone might leave the town without water.
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Crime without punishment: new report critical of destructive Bulgarian ski development
[ 28.04.2006 ]
 In the dawn of World Earth Day, a coalition of Bulgarian non-governmental organizations has released the damning results of a two-year assessment of the 30 million euro Bansko Ski Zone development, one of the most calamitous environmental crimes committed in Bulgaria in the last fifteen years.
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Summary of the report “Bansko Ski Zone - a Crime without Punishment”
[ 27.04.2006 ]
 The document is prepared by the Coalition of non-governmental organizations “Save Pirin”
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REPORT: Bansko Ski Zone - a Crime without Punishment
[ 21.02.2006 ]
Full text of the REPORT on the violations against the UNESCO site & potential NATURA 2000 site
(HTML version)
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Alberto Tomba to open controversial Bulgarian ski centre
[ 12.12.2003 ]
 On Saturday, the Italian ski legend will officially open a controversial new ski centre built within the Pirin National Park in Bulgaria, a UNESCO heritage site. According to environmental groups the ceremony will set the seal on the biggest crime against nature in Bulgaria for 15 years.
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Species potentially present and in the area of the planned new ski runs on the territory of the Pirin National Park and their conservation status
[ 11.11.2003 ]
Data from Atlas of the Endemic Plants in Bulgaria, Nikolov, N. et all, Sofia 1992, Publishing house of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Red Data Book of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, Dakov, M., Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 1984)
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Conservation Legislation Violations of the New Ski Runs Project in the Pirin National Park, Bulgaria
[ 11.11.2003 ]
For the construction of the approved ski runs (a ski run with a start the upper station of the Todorka ski rope and a final - Bunderishka Polyana; the ski runs Shiligarnik 1 and Plateau North), all of them being in the forest zone, it will be necessary to do clear cutting, which is a violation of art. 21, paragraph 3 of the Protected Areas Act which forbids clear cutting on the territory of National Parks.
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Case Study on the Project for New Ski Runs in the Pirin National Park in Bulgaria
[ 11.11.2003 ]
Background to the Problem
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Presentation of Mr.Toma Belev, Director of Natural Park "Vitosha"
[ 11.11.2003 ]
By letter 7624 dated August 19, 1966 the Ministry of Forests and Forest Industry (MFFI) was allowed to start research on the track of Todorka - Ikrishte ski run, provided that the area of Shiligarnika is not affected.
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