Vjosa National Park, Rama: 80m dollars of investment available

During his speech at the event, Rama said that from today Albania will forever protect Europe's last wild river while promising that the area of protected areas will increase.

Rama said she is in co-operation with authorities in Greece to treat Vjosa as common property between Albania and Greece.

“is $80m of the park's available investment to make it possible for all comas to stop pouring sewage into the” river, the prime minister added.

We'll demand that Vjosa declare common wealth with Greece in order to increase investments in it. We have a massive channeling project in all municipalities that go through Vjosa. Part of the investment is financial support for businesses to be held in these municipalities”, Rama said.

Today we forever defend Europe's last wild river, the prime minister stressed, while a response was to European environmentalists who have repeatedly called for the protection of Vjosa.

Many Europeans, after tamed tigers in cats, came here not to tame our tiger. Vjosa's tiger, we guarantee she won't go to the dentist to cut her teeth and she won't become a cat.

Rama expressed ambition to increase Albania's protected surface to 30 percent.

“Today, Albania has 21 percent of its territory protected. Every year, we have increased the surface, and our objective is to take it to 30 percent”.

The details of the government's decision indicate that the protected natural area affects an area of 12,7 thousand acres [12,75,000 ha], with 47 percent of water surfaces, 36 percent of land surfaces, 9.5 percent of land surfaces, and the remainder are river - prone generations.