Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has stated that another important step has been taken for the protection of the Vjosa River as the Management Plan for the National Park has been drawn up as a careful and intensive work by the National Agency of Protected Areas and the international experts of the IUCN.

The news was announced by Rama himself through a post on Facebook, where he wrote that this plan is ready for public consultation.

Rama also said that it is the turn of the local communities to be the first to enjoy the beauties of the new park.

Rama’s reaction:

We take another important step in the protection of the Vjosa river, the last wild river in Europe, where the Management Plan for the National Park has already been drawn up as a careful work and intensive by the National Agency of Protected Areas and IUCN international experts, being READY to be consulted in PUBLIC.

It is the turn of the local communities, those who live there and will be the first to enjoy the beauties of the new park, to join the voice in the plan for the management of Vjosa, which is protected as a National Park in 480 km of river line, in 12,000 hectares of surface, with its three branches, from the entrance to the territory of Albania to the estuary… and for all those who are blowing smoke without fire that the Vjosa estuary has been left out of defense limits, the opposite is true, that it is a double Protected Area as part of the River Vjosa National Park and as part of the Pine Poro-Nartë Protected Landscape for its extraordinary natural importance.

Public hearings for those who know how to listen will be held in Fier, Vlora and Gjirokastër on May 22 and 23.