Macedonian Ecological Society

The Macedonian Ecological Society (MES) was founded in 1972, in what was then known as the Socialist Republic of Macedonia.

Principal tasks and goals

 * Encourage the development of ecological scientific disciplines in North Macedonia
 * Promote the improvement of ecological and environmental education in the Macedonian education system
 * Raise public environmental awareness
 * Draw attention to environmental problems and, using scientific arguments, stimulate public pressure on institutions and authorities to invest in environmental protection enterprises
 * Provide expert assistance to the Macedonian Government in establishing legislative environmental policy
 * Promote monitoring systems and follow-up for environment quality in North Macedonia
 * Nature conservation with special emphasis on biodiversity

Principal activities in recent years

 * Complex ecological investigations in the beech forests in Mavrovo National Park 1997-2000
 * Balkan Bear Carnivores Conservation Network (BALKAN NET) - (Led by Arcturos, Greece)
 * TEDDY Project (Led by Arcturos, Greece)
 * Symposium "Sustainable development of transboundary Prespa region," Prespa, 2000
 * "Integrated Preservation of the Balkan Wolf Population by Diminishing the Human-Carnivore Conflict and Altering the Attitudes towards the Wolf", 2000. MES partnered with the Bulgarian Wilderness Fund and the Albanian Society for the Protection of Birds and Mammals (ASPBM)
 * ECO-NET: Creation of a network for legal protection and management of protected areas in the southern Balkans, in cooperation with Arcturos (Greece), Journalist Environmental Center - ERINA (North Macedonia) and NGOs from Bulgaria, Albania and Yugoslavia (Project in the frame of DAC) (unclear), 2001–2002
 * "BEZFOS" - Use of phosphate-free detergents in the Lake Ohrid regions of Ohrid and Struga (led by Farmahem (Pharmachem, Skopje), 2003.
 * Vulture conservation project, North Macedonia, 2003-
 * Preparation of an Action Plan for sustainable development of the village of Galicnik, 2005
 * Balkan Green belt as ecological corridor for the bear, wolf and lynx: Jablanica Mountain, 2005
 * Balkan Lynx Recovery Programme - Macedonia – 2006