National Park Pelister

15 January - President Gjorgje Ivanov and Diplomatic Core have visited the Info-center on National Park Pelister and was on winter walk to the place Lastojcin kamen near the hotel Molika  

17 - member delegation from Kosovo has visited Macedonia. Representatives of the Ministry of Local Government and executives of three of the five regional development agencies of Kosovo were exchangeing experiences and met positive examples from the work of some Macedonian state institutions, especially the ways of organizing, implementing decisions and actions.

The purpose of our visit of National park Pelister was to see how is it organized and then to convey the experience to Kosovo. The Kosovo delegation visited the Information Centre on Pelister, where they were presented with numerous activities to attract tourists to the Baba mountains. Neighboring Kosovo still has no national park but has great potentials that wants to put into operation in thair regional development, says the director of development agency Preda plus, Marianne Milevska, who has accompanied the delegation. 

At Pelister National Park is ongoing the harvest and redemption of cones and seed of Macedonian pine – “Molika” (Pinus peuce Gris.).

It expects to be collected and redeemed about 5 long vehicles of cones, and about 2 to 2.5 tons of pine seed.

Because the interest in this products is large, it is expected cones to be exported at Western European market.