Eco-entrepreneurs Blazhka Dimitrova and Boryana Uzunova have been bestowed with the biggest award of the environmental organization WWF - the President's Youth Award, which is presented to young environmentalists from around the world. The two Bulgarian women have been distinguished for their efforts to trigger a change in people’s attitude towards nature.
Blazhka Dimitrova has been working on promoting the idea of zero-waste lifestyle, which she describes in a book, and she has opened the first zero-waste restaurant in Bulgaria She also deals with educating individuals and institutions on how to use natural resources responsibly.
Boryana Uzunova is the founder of a company for hardware and software technologies. Her start-up facilitates the production of on-demand clothes and finds environmentally friendly solutions in the fashion industry. Its ultimate goal is to eliminate the need for mass production, which stimulates unsustainable consumption of resources and leads to high levels of air pollution.
Three anglers caught a giant catfish in Dyakovo dam near Dupnitsa. The fish could well enter the Guinness book of records, bTV reports. The men who caught the fish – all three named Mario – Mario Hristov, Mario Spasov and Mario Danailov – say..
Australians Claudia and Robert Buschaw flew 15,000 kilometres from Sydney to get married according to Bulgarian traditions in the Bulgarian village of Vishovgrad near the town of Pavlikeni , Veliko Tarnovo region. They brought 60 guests from Australia..
On 22 and 23 September, Bulgarians, mostly from Northern Italy, gathered in the beautiful Italian town of Brunate on Lake Como. There, against the backdrop of the majestic Alps and with a view of the entire Lombardy valley, they spent two days..
A unique specimen - an albino wild boar - was shot near the village of Lyubcha in the Rhodope municipality of Dospat. The remarkable catch was made on..
There is no inhabitant of the village of Velichka (north-eastern Bulgaria) who does not know about the two centuries-old oaks that have become part of the..
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