Employees of the Agency for the Management of Protected Areas in Podgorica organized actions to collect garbage from the area of the "Komovi" Nature Park belonging to the capital, for which they are responsible.
In the first action, they were joined by volunteers, temporary residents of the katun next to the Bukumir lake.
The agency says that, although they hired a "nature guard" during the summer who took care of collecting trash immediately around the Bukumir lake, they filled almost a trailer full of various garbage from the wider area - from discarded carpets to different types of packaging.
"The action in the area from Širokar to Katun Mokra was much more demanding. We collected garbage on two occasions, filling almost two trailers. Among other things, we removed a discarded refrigerator, a wood-burning stove, a lot of sheet metal that falls from the roofs of hunger, several car tires and many, many PVC and tin packaging", said the executive director of the agency, Jasna Gajević.
"It's a big space and we certainly didn't manage to pick up everything. We plan to repeat these actions at the beginning of the next tourist season. Our efforts will be in vain if the owners of buildings in this area and visitors do not take care of where they throw their trash. Everywhere, and especially in protected areas, garbage must be disposed of only in designated places. This is the only way we will preserve the beauty of the nature we are surrounded by," says Gajević.
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