Rescuing Lake Prespa through cross-border activism.

Cross-border cooperation is a rare phenomenon in the Balkans.

NGOs in Greece, Albania and North Macedonia are swimming against the tide and working together to protect a lake that has shores in all three countries.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251028-rescuing-lake-prespa-through-cross-border-activism?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

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Climate change, farmers draining ancient #Balkan lake

by Darko DURIDANSKI with Briseida MEMA in Tirana

For millennia, #LakePrespa was pristine. But under pressure from climate change, unchecked pumping and pollution, the prehistoric body of water in southeast Europe is shrinking at an alarming rate.

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-climate-farmers-ancient-balkan-lake.html