GB No. 12, winter 1994

THE NORTH PODLASIAN SOCIETY
FOR BIRD PROTECTION

The North Podlasian Society for Bird Protection (PTOP) was founded in Białowieża in 1985. PTOP is active in the North Podlasian Lowland (North-East Poland). Our aims are:

• to protect birds and especially their habitats, to document the current status of, and changes in, the birdlife of the North Podlasian Lowland,
• to raise public awareness of birds, the threats to their survival, and possibilities of protection.

The members of PTOP are participating in both national and international ornithological projects, programmes, and free excursions to habitats for the inhabitants of Białystok.

Most important for us is active protection of wetlands. Therefore we are looking at methods new to Poland -- creating PTOP Nature Reserves through buying and renting land. These will be the first nature reserves in Poland owned by a social, non-governmental organization. In our campaigns (e.g. to save the Narew marshes) we work in cooperation with other Polish and international organisations with similar aims.

Północnopodlaskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Ptaków
17-230 Białowieża 32, POLAND