Bio-diversity

The project focuses on issues of biodiversity and climate change. Project site is the remote mountainous village Shishtavec on the border with FYROM and Kosovo. This project is supporting a recent comeback of interest in forest restoration and tree planting. It is worth mentioning that in the last 10 years forest in Albanian have sustained significant damage. The project is providing support to the community initiative to recreate the birch forest (Betula verrucosa) that once did exist in the area and connect it with the other afforested areas in the vicinity. Local community is interested in harvesting tree leafs that are reported to have medicinal active ingredients.12 hectares of forested land will be created and managed by the community. This project is co-financed by CARE International Albania under carbon reduction innitiative of Canadian Government.

Albania