Support of the Union of Parks and Landscape Specialists in Bulgaria

The members of the Union of Parks and Landscape Specialists in Bulgaria (founded in 1991) are convinced the realization of the new detailed regulation plan of the valuable Belgrade’s Zvezdara Forest will cause irretrievable damages on the different components of the urban environment (air temperature, chemical composition and presence of dust, biodiversity, wind regime etc.) and citizens will be denied the opportunities of being in contact with nature’s elements, so of recreating their physical and spiritual health. As result the quality of life of people of the different age groups will be considerably lowered for ever. Authorities that are concerned of their citizens do not act in such way, because their main task is to assure the happiness of all the people in the respective state, region or city. We express our full support to the initiative of Belgrade’s citizens and insist that the planed business activities in the Zvezdara forest will be realized elsewhere where the environment and people’s life will not be harm so heavily!
Dr Maria Samardjieva
Landscape architect, journalist
President
Union of Parks & Landscape
Specialists in Bulgaria
Member of CIVILSCAPE
Member of Citisens for Green Sofia Initiative