Overview of Nature Protection Progress in Kosovo

This paper presents an overview of progress in the area of nature conservation in the last decade in Kosovo.\udTwo very important laws were promulgated in 2012 about two national parks: Bjeshket e Nemuna and\udSharri National park. With this expansion, the protected area network that in 2003 was about 4.36 % of\udthe territory was increased to 10.9%, reaching a satisfactory degree of protected areas and increasing the\udnumber of protected areas in a total of 116. While in terms of conservation of protected areas a significant\udprogress has been achieved, stagnation is seen in the conservation of rare and threatened species of flora\udand fauna. Although envisaged by legislation, the Red List of Kosovo of rare and threatened species has\udnot been adopted yet. Also, there is a small progress in the implementation of practical conservation and\udmanagement measures contained in the legislation