The European Day of Parks
Post date: May 24, 2011 8:00:38 AM
22.05.2011.
The European Day of Parks was launched by the EUROPARC Federation with the aim of raising the profile of Europe's protected areas and generating public support for their aims and work. It was first held in 1999 and a broad variety of events in and about protected areas highlighting the need to protect these have been organised. Events have been celebrated across Europe on an annual basis on and around 24 May, a date that has been chosen to commemorate the creation of Europe's first nine national parks in Sweden on 24 May 1909.European Day of Parks 2011: Volunteering—Nature Needs You 2011 has been declared the European Year of Volunteering by the European Commission. As announced in our September E-News the theme of the European Day of Parks 2011 we are taking this opportunity to promote the great work millions of volunteers do in protected areas around Europe every year. Therefore the theme of the European Day of Parks 2011 is: ‘Volunteering—Nature Needs You’, 'Volontariat - La nature a besoin de vous', 'Freiwillige vor – die Natur braucht Sie'.
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There are 5 national parks in Serbia as of 2007, and one more which is proposed and is in the procedure of receiving the status of the National Park:
Đerdap - stretches along the right bank of the Danube River from the Golubac fortress (Serbian: Голубачки град, Golubački grad) to the dam near Sip, Serbia. It spreads over 640 square kilometres and the park management office is in the town of Donji Milanovac on the Danube.
Fruška gora - Fruška gora is proclaimed a National Park in 1960 in order to provide its permanent protection and to improve its natural resources and beauty. The area of active protection is 25.525 ha. Fruska Gora is an isolated, narrow, island mountain in Pannonia plain, in northern part of Serbia.
Kopaonik - Kopaonik (Serbian: Копаоник, Kopaonik) is the 2nd biggest mountain of the central Serbia, spreads its wide mountain-ridge 82.7km long, its greatest width being 63km, in the direction from the mountainous region over Kosovska Mitrovica, to the north-west over the series of peaks higher than 1600m, to the highest part of the massif called Ravni Kopaonik (Flat Kopaonik) with the peaks: Gobelja (1934m), Karaman Vucak (1936m), Suvo Rudište (1976m) and Pančićev vrh (Pancic Peak) (2017m).
It is located in the central part of Serbia. Kopaonik's national park was established in 1981. Deciduous forests and native coniferous woodland make up most of the forested land in the park.
Tara - Tara (Serbian Cyrillic: Тара), is a mountain located in western Serbia. It is part of Dinaric Alps and stands at 1,000-1,500 meters above sea level. The mountain's slopes are clad in dense forests with numerous high-altitude clearings and meadows, steep cliffs, deep ravines carved by the nearby Drina River and many karst, or limestone caves. The mountain is a popular tourist center. Tara's national park encompasses a large part of the mountain. The highest peak is Kozji rid (1591 m) on the western edge of the mountain, followed by Zborište (1544 m) in the south.
Šar Mountain - Šar mountain is located in southwestern Serbia, bordering Albania and FYR Macedonia. Šar Mountains National Park, which was established in 1993., spreads out over its northern slopes. It is the largest area of biodiversity in the Balkans as it is the sole habitat of around 20 endemic species or natural rarities.
Prokletije - Prokletije is a mountain range located in southwestern Serbia, on the border with Montenegro and Albania.