The Role of NGOs in Environmental Protection

Non-Governmental associations can have a crucial role in the process of public awareness raising about the environment.

These activities are particularly important in the countries of the Southeast Europe. They provide a great opportunity in the region for two reasons:

First, the majority of people in the region, especially in the poor transition countries, direct their efforts to the protection of their habitat and to sustainable management of their resources.

Second, the development of regional protection policies and legislation over the past decade are a direct result from the public appeal for safer and cleaner environments.
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19.09.2008 The changes in the Rulebook on Discarded Packaging and Waste introduces a compensation fee for producers of plastic bags of 1,500 HRK per ton of produced bags, the biggest such fee compared to other types of packaging since the fee was first introduced in April of this year, reports the Alert portal.

15.09.2008 The Pravo na grad (Right to a City) initiative and Zelena akcija (Green Action) invite the citizens to join the `Zagreb Human Wall` to defend the historic Floral Square (Cvjetni Trg) from the devastation threatened by the Hoto Group of entrepreneur Tomislav Horvatinčić, which last Thursday started the activities on the demolition of the building of the former printing press in the yard of a building located on the Square.

02.10.2007 The ecology in Montenegro is in the worst possible situation in the past 16 years, i.e. since Montenegro was declared ecological state. To put it simply, ecology is walked over by all those who object to that path of development, writes Sinisa Stevovic from MOST.

12.12.2007 The Zelena akcija environmental association presented its Zero waste manual. The manual aims to show that waste management is much wider than the simple matters of waste dumps and incinerators.