Rebuilding BESTbelt Heritage

These are the planned activities for the European Green Belt Day: 

The celebration takes place in the heart of Montenegro's  Key Biodiversity Area, which includes the Bojana River and its delta, Ulcinj Salina, Lake Shas, Ada Bojana Island, Long Beach and adjacent marine areas. This hydrologically dynamic system, rich in karst, rivers and traditional agriculture, faces growing challenges of flooding, erosion, vegetation loss, habitat fragmentation and biodiversity decline.

Activities include:

• Visit to the only remaining protected old trees,
• Distributing educational materials on the concept “Get to know your Homeland”, test and recommendations for finalisation.
• Conducting a test citizen science monitoring session, where locals, schools, landowners and visitors to contribute to biodiversity data collection.

Aim: The celebration highlights the project’s broader mission: to protect and revitalise biodiversity by promoting the participation of a wider and diverse circle of stakeholders, generate inspiration, a positive attitude, and ownership of the process, thereby ensuring a strengthened front for the nature and cultural heritage. By combining hands-on citizen involvement and education, the event strengthens climate resilience, safeguards traditional landscapes and enhances pride and awareness among local people.

 The event also presents the role of the European Green Belt as a framework for connecting communities and ecosystems along one of Europe’s most important ecological corridors, showing how local actions in Ulqin contribute to wider European nature conservation efforts.

This European Green Belt Day celebration is part of an EU-funded BESTbelt project.