🌲 A 5-Year Tradition of Bringing HOPE Back to Mount Munella

📍 Mount Munella Nature Park
📅 19–20 December 2025

For the past five years, every winter, dozens of professionals, nature enthusiasts, and volunteers have climbed Mount Munella to plant hope. What started as a volunteer initiative by forest engineers Roland Lleshi and Ilir Shyti in 2021 has grown into an annual tradition that combines care for nature with the power of community. Thanks to this initiative and various PPNEA projects, 9,000 seedlings, including black pine and fruit trees such as chestnuts and walnuts, have been planted in the area.

Munella is one of the habitats of the Balkan lynx, home to only about 10 remaining individuals. For decades, the mountain has borne deep scars from illegal logging, fires, overexploitation, and habitat destruction.

This is why every seedling we plant carries the weight of a promise.

This year, our goal is to plant 1,000 black pine (Pinus nigra) and fruit tree seedlings in the degraded areas of the mountain.

🌱 Cost per seedling: only €1.5

The seedlings are local, certified, and carefully selected to flourish in Munella’s climate, growing strong as a new generation of forests that will protect the land and biodiversity for decades to come.

🤝 Behind this initiative stand:
– PPNEA
– Heinrich Böll Stiftung Tirana
– Protected Areas Administration
– Hundreds of dedicated volunteers

Every donation is a seed sown for the future:

• One more tree
• More oxygen
• Less erosion
• Greater security for local communities
• One more chance for the Balkan lynx

🌿 Together, for Munella. For nature. For the generations to come.

Thank you from the heart for every bit of support!