Sun, Nov 22 2009
Photo: Nick Iliev
Photo: Nick Iliev
The ski season is approaching its start but the controversy and discontent surrounding it, have reached unprecedented levels.
The decision for the construction of a ski lift in the Vitosha park was in violation of the management plan of the park.
The organisation fears that with the arrival of the next Government, the systematic destruction of natural habitat will continue.
Pirin National Park was included in the World Heritage list of Unesco in 1983, but the organisation had expressed its concerns repeatedly after the construction of the Bansko ski resort centre was initiated.
The European Commission is taking Bulgaria to court for delays in providing Sofia with adequate waste disposal facilities.
James Warlick is the spouse of Mary Warlick, director of the office of Russian affairs at the US state department, who has been nominated to serve as ambassador to Serbia
Bulgaria’s Health Ministry announced on November 20 2009 that the flu epidemic declared two weeks earlier is at an end as rates of infection decline. The announcement coincides with reports of two deaths from A (H1N1) flu in Bulgaria.
Acting on allegations by Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria leader Ivan Kostov, prosecutors and Government officials are to probe deals by which Movement for Rights and Freedoms leader Ahmed Dogan acquired various properties.
Prosecutors allege that a deal agreed by the former defence minister caused losses of 12.9 million leva.
The good snow in Vitosha fell in late January 2009 and stayed until end of April. That's a 3-months season. The one in 2007/08 was worse, you know.
Hi, i would like to point out to you all that the ski resorts all over europe including Scotland have seem an early and sustained ski season last winter due to more snow than ever for years! Skiing is a wonderful family sport and we should be able to expose our children to it even if it means chopping some trees, they will grow again you know! its always been hit and miss to reley on snow cover below 1500m, but with todays tehcnology we can.come on you lot wake up to the fact that there are more forest & mountain walks in the summer in Bulgaria because of ski resort developments, why dont you try skiing?
People need a place to relax and green areas available for all to use from the city.
As long as people have an opportunity to enjoy skiing isn't that enough?
Ski enthusiasts can go to Bansko
Borovets or Pamporovo. By all accounts Bansko has been ruined. It
would be sad for all if Vitosha were to be spoiled as well.
Seems like this could be a tremendous waste of money -- not to mention a tremendous trashing of natural values. In the Alps, thanks to climate change, ski areas below 1500 meters are not considered viable and cannot get loans. Some Bulgarian ski areas are already suffering from lack of snow cover -- and this will only get worse in the next years.
Spain is beginning to learn some painful lessons related to killing the goose that lays the golden (tourist) eggs. Bulgarians would do well to learn from this experience.
There goes the Vitosha beauty. Some people never learn.