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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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Also, it is a part of the international ecological corridor and the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA), already proposed for a nature reserve by the Government’s Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia. Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy.

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Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece

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In the next year I visited the British Birdfair for the first time, which turned out to be the experience that changed my life. From that year onward my work became dedicated to the protection of the area, as well as promotion of local ecotourism possibilities. Greater Flamingos stay at the lake in their thousands.

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