RESEN, Republic of North Macedonia - For millennia, Lake Prespa was pristine. But under pressure from climate change, unchecked pumping and pollution, the prehistoric body of water in South-east Europe is shrinking at an alarming rate.
“Earlier there was a lot more snow that could reach one meter or a meter and a half, while in recent years the snowfall has been almost nonexistent,” Mr Goran Stojanovski, a 38-year-old ranger who has spent over a decade monitoring the lake in North Macedonia, told AFP. Environmental pollution coming from agricultural run-off from the seemingly endless rows of nearby orchards only adds to its problems, leading to algae blooms that spur fears of creating dead zones.
Approximately 2,000 species of fish, birds and mammals along with an array of flora depend on its waters for sustenance. The pesticides and fertilisers are largely used in the apple orchards that are famed in the region, accounting for roughly 70 per cent of the economic activity in and around Prespa’s shores in the North Macedonia areas of the lake.
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