Ice Age Reminders After thousands of years, the work of glaciers remains evident in Pirin National Park. More than 70 glacial lakes exist, echoes of the last ice age. The carving power of ice is ...

Pirin National Park in Bulgaria could be added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger. It shelters possibly the oldest tree in the Balkan peninsula and is home to brown bear, wolf, chamois, and ...

The coalition of NGOs and civil society organizations "For the Nature in Bulgaria”, which WWF belongs to, is very concerned about an audacious new draft of a management plan for Pirin National Park.

Sofia, Bulgaria (29 January 2018) – Pirin National Park, one of Europe’s most important biodiversity hotspots, has suffered irreparable damage from the construction and expansion of Bansko ski ...

2023 45COM 7B.91 - Pirin National Park (Bulgaria) (N 225bis) 2021 44COM 7B.101 - Pirin National Park (Bulgaria) (N 225bis) 2018 42COM 7B.72 - Pirin National Park (Bulgaria) (N 225bis) 2016 40COM 7B.93 ...

Pirin National Park is a precious World Heritage site, covering mountain landscapes, amazing waterfalls and coniferous forests. It is home to the brown bear, wolves and many other threatened species, ...

Pirin National Park has a limestone Balkan landscape, with lakes, waterfalls, caves and pine forests. The rugged mountains, with some 70 glacial lakes scattered throughout them, are home to hundreds ...

The extension now covers an area of around 40,000 ha in the Pirin Mountains, and overlaps with the Pirin National Park, except for two areas developed for tourism (skiing). The dominant part of the ...

2002, 2004, 2011: Joint World Heritage Centre/IUCN Reactive Monitoring missions; 2018: IUCN Advisory mission 2018 IUCN Advisory Mission to the World Heritage property “Pirin National Park”, Bulgaria, ...