Eco-entrepreneurs Blazhka Dimitrova and Boryana Uzunova have been bestowed with the biggest award of the environmental organization WWF - the President's Youth Award, which is presented to young environmentalists from around the world. The two Bulgarian women have been distinguished for their efforts to trigger a change in people’s attitude towards nature.
Blazhka Dimitrova has been working on promoting the idea of zero-waste lifestyle, which she describes in a book, and she has opened the first zero-waste restaurant in Bulgaria She also deals with educating individuals and institutions on how to use natural resources responsibly.
Boryana Uzunova is the founder of a company for hardware and software technologies. Her start-up facilitates the production of on-demand clothes and finds environmentally friendly solutions in the fashion industry. Its ultimate goal is to eliminate the need for mass production, which stimulates unsustainable consumption of resources and leads to high levels of air pollution.
"Folklore is a need for humans and this need will not disappear just like that, " says Assoc. Prof. Dr. Natalia Rashkova - ethnologist and folklorist, university lecturer and researcher with a strong contribution to the study of..
Researchers from Bulgaria and abroad are gathering in Sofia for a scientific conference. The forum will be held on October 16 and 17 in the building of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the..
The Sofia Zoo has a new resident – an 11-year-old male snow leopard, BNT has reported. He comes from Nordens Ark Zoo, located in Bohuslän, Sweden and is named Araatan. Some time ago, a female leopard arrived from the Helsinki Zoo,..
Nearly two centuries ago, in the distant 1838, the Bessarabian Archbishop Dmitry Kishinev and Khotinsky consecrated the magnificent Orthodox church "The..
"We cannot escape from modern technologies, but we must think about how we can use artificial intelligence to improve the quality of..
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