Galichica National Park does not receive financial support from the state. It is currently funded by entrance fees and international donations which are not permanent and if those funds are reduced or stopped, the NP may revert to the old methods of funding, logging, which should not be used as national parks are natural wealth intended for ecotourism.
Andon Bojadzi, an employee of NP Galichica and former director of the Park, told MIA that more than half of the national park’s budget is money from German taxpayers and from the Prespa-Ohrid PONT Fund. – One of the ways of providing funds according to the Law on Nature Protection is the State Budget, but in the Law it is left more as an opportunity than as an obligation, Bojadzi pointed out.
