Round table ’’Plav lake protection’’
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 09:43
As part of the manifestation "Days of blueberries," which is traditionally organized every year in the municipality of Plav, on 26/07/2010, Agency for Environmental Protection in cooperation with the above-mentioned municipality organized a round table on "Plav Lake Protection."
In addition to representatives of the Agency for the Environment, a round table was attended by Mayor of Plav, Mr. Skender Šarkinović, representatives of institutions of Plav municipality, NGOs, the Regional Development Agency Bjelasica, Komovi and Prokletija, Hydrometeorological Institute, GTZ, UNDP and Institute for Nature Protection.
On this occasion, the participants of the round table had a chance to get acquainted through presentations of representatives of GTZ, UNDP, and the Hydrometeorological Institute further problems of Plav Lake, priority measures, as well as the possibilities of future projects for its restoration and permanent protection, which are undoubtedly necessary, bearing in mind the damage which its degradation and loss caused to Montenegro, which its future development dominantly build on ecological-economic potential, where on the very top is this gift of nature Lake Plav.
Hydrometeorological Institute of Montenegro - Department of Oceanography and hydrography has done in 2008 and 2009 "Project of batimetric and geodetic shooting of Plav lake", whose main task is development of "digital models of bottom of Plav lake and shore, on the basis of which relief will be determined and the volume of the lake basin. Based on the results obtained by these measurements and their comparison with the results of measurements done by the 1970, it was found that the trend of reduction in area and volume of Plav Lake continues. For the past forty years Plav lake area was reduced for ten, and the volume for seventeen percent.
Precisely the goal of the round table was the initiative of protecting Plav Lake, according to many one of the most beautiful and least used of wetlands in Europe.
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