
GB has proven experience in wetland restoration and management in Bulgaria. The NGO has been running a long-term conservation program for the Pomorie Lake since 1996. Diverse measures for conservation of bird species, restoration of habitat and hydrological regime, the establishment of a visitor centre, cleaning the illegally dumped domestic and construction waste and raising public awareness for the site have been implemented through these years. One of the most successful activity was the restoration of habitats of rare and protected colonially breeding waterfowl species (Sandwich, Common and Little terns, Avocets, Black-winged stilts, Kentish plovers) resulting in stabilising their breeding populations in Pomorie Lake. In the period 2008-2010, an Integrated management plan for Pomorie Lake (national protected area, SCI&SPA, Ramsar site) was drafted and submitted in 2014. It is not approved by the competent authority-MoEW, yet.
The GB has been involved as an associated beneficiary in the project MC SALT LIFE10/NAT/IT/256, dealing with conservation and maintaining of FCS of birds and habitats In nine Natura 2000 sites (all of them hosting salt work), situated in Italy, France and Bulgaria. GB is a coordinating beneficiary in the project ‘Natura 2000 in Bulgaria -New Horizons’ LIFE17 GIE/BG/371.