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The Callisto Environmental Organization in collaboration with the project "Connecting people and wildlife in the Balkan Green Belt" of Best Belt and the Life Arcprom project, organizes an event on the topic "Improving the conditions of human-wildlife coexistence on the Greek-Bulgarian border", on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at the cafe "To Steki" in the village of Chrysokephalos in Drama. As part of the event, there will be an educational activity for children as well as a documentary screening. Detailed event schedule: 17:30 Educational...

What we are supposed to do if we meet a bear? - Instructions for a safe visit to brown bear sites Fundacion Oso Pardo (FOP-Brown Bear Foundation), based in Spain, has created a 5-minute animated video with instructions on how to safely visit brown bear habitats. The video was created as part of the LIFE Osos con Futuro project and in continuation was provided to the Environmental Organisation Callisto, that translated and dubbed it, as part of the LIFE arcprom project. Many thanks...

An online event on "Participatory Processes in Mountainous Greece: Lessons and Perspectives" within the European LIFE Arcprom program is organized by the Callisto Environmental Organization. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, from 18:30 to 20:30 via the ZOOM platform. Objectives of the meeting: Account of the operation of the Platforms for the Coexistence of Local Societies and the Bear in the National Parks of North Pindos, Prespa and the Rhodope Mountains. Evaluation of the open events and workshops...

Callisto and the LIFE Arcprom project participated in the IENE 2024 International Conference (9-13 September, Prague). IENE promotes knowledge sharing for safe, sustainable and biodiversity-friendly pan-European transport infrastructure. Callisto was represented by Dr. Maria Psaralexi who presented the intervention made regarding the construction of a new "Xanthi-Echinos-Greek-Bulgarian Border" vertical axis of the Egnatia Highway network. This intervention concerned the need for an impact assessment of this highway on wildlife. ...

With the RESPECT® initiative, we protect the brown bear by rewarding businesses that operate in the area where it lives, respecting its habitat and taking precautions for harmonious coexistence. We thank the companies that have been contracted so far that are active in the areas of national parks N. Pindos, Prespa and Rhodope. We continue the effort to establish the mark and invite other businesses to be informed through our website and to visit our information system to submit the application...

Subject: Open Meeting with the Local Society "Guardians of the Mountains: for the Sustainable Coexistence of Humans and Bears in the Pindus Mountains" Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2024. Time: 11:00 - 13:00 Venue. Information: https://vovousafestival.gr/oramatismos/ "The Guardians of the Mountains: For the Sustainable Coexistence of Humans and Bears in the Pindus Mountains" will take place on Wednesday 31 July 2024 at 11:00 - 13:00, at the venue of the Vovoussa Festival. The workshop is organized by the Environmental Organization for Nature and Wildlife Callisto, in...

Subject: Open Meeting with Local Society | "Fruit trees and their contribution to wildlife management" Date: Wednesday, 24 July 2024 Time: 19:00 - 21:00 Place: 24:24:24 - 21:24 - 21:24 24:24 "RiverCafé Bar", Paranesti, Paranesti Information: 2310252530, 2524021030 Open meeting with the local community in the area of the Rhodope Mountains National Park on the topic "Fruit trees and their contribution to the management of Wildlife" is organized by the Environmental Organization Callisto in cooperation with the Management Unit of the Nestos-Vistonida and Rhodope National...

Open meeting with the local community in the area of Prespes on the topic "Fruit Trees and their contribution to Wildlife Management" is organized by the Environmental Organization Callisto in cooperation with the Management Unit of the Prespes National Park and Protected Areas of Western Macedonia of OFYPEKA, in the framework of the European LIFE ARCPROM project. The meeting will take place on Tuesday 23 July 2024, at 19:00 - 21:00, at the café bar "Liveloula" in Lefkonas and aims to...

An operation to free a young bear, which was trapped in a rainwater tank in the Local Community of Metamorphosis of the Municipality of Zitsa Ioannina, in the mountainous area of Mitsikeli, on the borders of the North Pindos National Park, took place on Friday, June 28, 2024. The North Pindos National Park Management Unit of OFYPEKA was informed about the incident by residents of Metamorfosi, whom we thank warmly. Officials of the Unit, the Forestry Department of Ioannina and the...

On the occasion of World Environment Day, a presentation event is organized for the LIFE Arcprom project, which aims to improve the coexistence of brown bears and humans in three National Parks in Greece (Prespes, Pindos, Rhodope Mountains) and in one in Italy (Majella). The event will take place on Wednesday 5 June 2024, at 19:00, in the Multipurpose Hall of the Kato Dome, in Paranesti, Drama. The event will take stock of the interventions made so far in the framework of...