30 December 2020
30.12.2020 - The Municipal Assembly of the Municipality of Gjilan, in the meeting held on 24.12.2020, approved decisions for the protection of thirteen new natural areas within the territory of this municipality.
This decision came following the initiative of the Kosovo Institute for Nature Protection. In the framework of carrying out its programmatic tasks, in cooperation with the Municipality of Gjilan, the KINP had completed in 2019 the project of documenting the natural heritage in the territory of this municipality. Within this activity, after preliminary field research, several areas were selected for protection due to their natural values of a botanical, hydrological, speleological, and landscape nature, distinguished by unique characteristics.
The Kosovo Institute for Nature Protection had also carried out a further study of the natural values that met the criteria for legal protection and had proposed to the municipality to make a decision for their protection.
The new areas taken under legal protection in the territory of the Municipality of Gjilan, which have been added to the register of protected areas, are:
With these new areas taken under legal protection, the national register of protected areas reaches 229 protected areas in nature.