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FRIENDS OF BPN
Interesting websites about nature and trees:
Dr. Janusz Korbel
By education he is Dr. Engineer, but for a long time he has not worked
in his profession. He is a chairman of the Natural Scenery Protection Society,
and for several years he has been involved in campaigns for nature protection
(lately-a worldwide action BISON - Bialowieza International Solidarity Network),
which resulted in appointing the Polish president team for protection of natural
& cultural heritage of the Forest. Before that he established Workshops of
Living Architecture, Workshops For All Beings and monthly magazine 'Wild Life'.
Moreover he is a journalist writing for many publishers including
'Czasopis'-Belorussian socio-cultural magazine or literary 'Latarnia Morska'
from Pomorze. He is an author of the following books: 'Architektura żywa',
'W obronie ziemi', 'Uwagi na temat prowadzenia warsztatów', 'Ekozofia
urbanistyki', 'Człowiek i las' and several dozens of printed publications
and over 100 articles & essays. He was rewarded with: the prize of the Polish
Urbanist Society for the best diploma project about urban planning &
development planning as the thesis superviser, 1988; the prize of
Environmental Partnership for Central and Eastern Europe for a project
concerning ecological education carried out by the Ecological Education
Station in the Wapienica Valley, 1991; Innovators for the Public -
enrolling in the circle of Leading Public Enterpreneurs & perpetual
membership "Ashoka", 1997; Ecological Bayer Prize, 1999; the reward
'For outstanding achievements for the natural environment of the Silesian
Province' from the Silesia Foundation & Trybuna Sl±ska editors, 2000; and
in 2005 he got the Alfred Latyński prize in the field of the natural
environment protection. He has lived in the Bialowieza Forest for 7 years now.
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