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Welcome to our world, the Prespa lakes!

You are at the official website of the Life+ Information & Communication Project "Fish, Fisheries and European Policy in the Prespa Basin" that implements the Society for the Protection of Prespa with the co-funding of the European Union.

The Society for the Protection of Prespa is celebrating World Wetlands Day with events in Thessaloniki and across the borders in Prespa

3 February 2012

At the centre of this year’s events for World Wetlands Day organised by the Society for the Protection of Prespa are Prespa’s fisheries and rare fish species.

Click on the Fish of Prespa!

As part of the programme Life+ Information & Communication (2010-2013): “Fish, Fisheries and European Policy in the Prespa Basin,” the biologist and nature photographer Andrea Bonetti photographed 12 of the 23 fish species known to live in the Prespa lakes.

“We don’t throw rubbish in our lakes…”

18 June 2011

…says Kostas Paraskevopoulos, local fisherman and protagonist of the TV infomercial currently showing on Greek television as part of the LIFE+ Information and Communication Programme.

This year’s environmental education programme came to an end with a jaunt to the river

3 June 2011

Prespa’s schoolchildren celebrated the beginning of summer, seeing in the month of June with a trip to the river. After the preceding months of classroom-based educational activities at the Junior School, theory became practice down by the mouth of the Agios Germanos River.

The “Treasures of our Lakes” exhibition is on the road in the Transboundary Prespa Park

June 2011

The mobile exhibition about fish and fisheries in Prespa began its transboundary travels starting off at the Saraj Cultural Centre in FYR of Macedonia and the two largest secondary schools in the city of Korcë, Themistokli Germenji and Raqi Qerenxhi, in Albania.

All generations learn all about fish!

29 May 2011

With the occasion of the World Environment Day, during the last weekend of May the mobile exhibition “The treasures of our lakes” moved to the Environmental Park of Kastoria and more specifically to Kastoria’s Environmental Education Centre.

Opening night of the “Treasures of Our Lakes” exhibition

15 April 2011

With the core message – “Learn all you need to know about keeping the treasures of the lakes safe from harm” – the exhibition was launched on Friday 15th April.

This year we’re learning all about fish!

6 April 2011

Environmental education in the Agios Germanos junior school kicked off this year with the ‘stars’ of the Prespa Rivers – the Prespa trout and the Prespa barbel.

Open meeting between the public bodies and residents of Prespa

17 December 2010

An open meeting for all concerned was convened on 17th December in Laimos, Prespa. The discussion touched on many issues that relate to Prespa’ s rare fish species, fisheries and the general state of the Prespa Lakes.