Poda Protected Area

The nature preservation site Poda was announced an ensured territory in 1989 by the Bulgarian Ministry of Water and Environment. It was the principal ensured zone in Bulgaria that is totally overseen and kept up by a non-legislative association, the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of BirdsBSPB. BSPB gets ready and actualizes exercises embraced by the Council of Minister's Management Plan, however gets its subsidizing totally from extra charges, keepsakes sold, and gifts.

Through this plan, it means to be a maintainable model for nature protection, ecological instruction, and eco-tourism. Situated on the southeastern Bulgarian Black Sea coast, the Burgas harbor was found in the south of the city, Poda is surrounded by Black Sea and three broad lakes - Via Lake, Mandra Lake, and Atanasovsko Lake. Alongside the ensured zone Poda, they frame a substantial wetland zone called the Burgas Lakes.

It is an organically essential territory as a resting station for a considerable lot of the transitory winged animals who utilize the Eastern European transient course, Via Pontica; and additionally a critical settling natural surroundings for some reproducing species. In 1994, it was named Korin and in 2002, Poda was included in Ramsar list of international importance wetlands in the Ramsar Conference. It is proposed to be incorporated into the European Natura 2000 system inside the normal zone Mandra - Poda.