Natural environment

A lynx, a wild cat in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, has been photographed in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli. 

The European Commission has sent an additional letter of formal notice to Bulgaria in connection with systemic problems in the implementation of EU nature conservation legislation.

Australia intervened at Thursday's annual meeting of the UNESCO's World Heritage Committee in Bahrein to stop some Bulgarian amendments to the Commitee's decision on the Pirin National Park - a UNESCO heritage site.

The UNESCO Committee adopted a decision on the national park at its 42nd session on Thursday that incorporated only some of the changes Bulgaria sought.

The Center for the preparation of secondary raw materials (the Center) is the most modern sorting plant in this part of Europe and the only one in the region providing purely real recycling. Construction began at the end of August 2017 and the machines were tested for the first time in the middle of May 2018. The Center will be fully operational by the end of June this year.

The Macedonian wildcat, or Balkan lynx, is a national symbol of Macedonia and one of the rarest animals in the world.

Municipal authorities across Greece have until the end of the year to come up with a plan to halve the amount of solid waste that ends up at landfills, Alternate Environment Minister Sokratis Famellos told an event in Thessaloniki over the weekend.

NEW DELHI, June 15 (Xinhua) -- India is facing its worst ever water crisis so far in its history, warned a report prepared by Indian government's ace thinktank and policy adviser the National Institution for Transforming India, or NITI Aayog, on Friday.

With dusty desert sprawled across the region, Middle Eastern and north African nations must prepare better for drought as water shortages look set to worsen, the United Nations said on June 15.

Croatian environmentalists are calling for a more pro-active approach to pollution in the Adriatic resulting from thrown-away plastic items, amid growing fears about their impact on fish, wildlife and human health.

The Mediterranean could become a "sea of plastic," the WWF warned on June 8 in a report calling for measures to clean up one of the world's worst affected bodies of water.