Update #7 / July 20, 2021

I have to admit that it almost looks like we are cursed. I can’t have another explanation for the obstacles we hit on our quest.

Snow in late May

Everything was planned for our May event when I went for a routine scouting trip to Lurë to find almost 2 meters of snow on the road leading to the lakes. I tried a few alternative routes but all were by snow or landslides.

Postponing the event was not possible due to the fact that the window for planting trees was just about to end. We went to Lurë anyway but unfortunately not with the trees but with friends to enjoy and do more scouting on the areas we will plant.

We have also met with Mr. Astrit Lika who is the current director of the National park to discuss our plans and how they can get involved.

Paperwork

While we have not been able to plant in May we switched immediately towards Autumn and used most of the Spring to prepare a detailed project, overall plan and a map to make sure we plant in Autumn.

You can check the Project Map where we marked potential and current planting areas.

We have worked on a comprehensive project for our planting efforts which we have submitted to the Ministry of Tourism and Environment for approval.

What’s next?

As soon as the Ministry will give us their decision we will be back to Lurë working towards the Autumn goals.

During summer we have a lot of work to do to prepare the planting area around the Liqeni i Zi.

This involves marking the area and the planting scheme. Cleaning up old wood and most importantly preparing the tree bed for 2 500 trees - in other words - dig 2 500 holes each 40x40x40 cm in size.

We want to do all this hard work ahead of Autumn events so that we can focus only on planting the trees and invite a wide range of volunteers to participate.

On behalf of the whole team,
Pavel

Archive

Update #21: 2024 Monitoring report / October 4, 2024

Year 2024 was incredibly hot and dry, which had negative impact on the survival rate, we have 56.4% for the 2023 area, we are making changes for the 2024 season!

Update #20: Researcher from UK & week of meetings / July 7, 2024

Week of meetings with institutions and NGOs with researcher Stephen Haywood from the UK

Update #19: Overview of the 2023 / January 28, 2024

Overview and Brochure of our work in 2023, what a busy year it was!

Update #18: 10,081 planted in Autumn 2023 / December 15, 2023

We planted another 10,081 trees in 2023 bringing total number up to 22,793!

Update #17: Organising school events in 2023 / December 7, 2023

Organising school events in 2023

Update #16: Dorjan Bulku leaving Trees for Lurë / July 10, 2023

Dorjan Bulku decided to leave the project and focus on new exciting opportunities.

Update #15: Preparing seeds of Pinus nigra, Pinus peuce and Abies alba for planting / April 11, 2023

Seeds to grow 11 000 seedlings in our nursery are being prepared.