Cooperation between MED and the Skopje ZOO Together for care and protection of the lynx and griffon vultures   The Macedonian Ecological Association has signed a memorandum for cooperation with the Skopje ZOO. The experts from MEA say that in the future they will help the ZOO with current information and projects for protection of big game in the Republic of Macedonia as well as to raise public awareness with mutual efforts. As Dime Melovski, a biologist in MEA says, there is an idea to improve the cage of one of the protected wild animal kinds in our country, the lynx, whose reconstruction is already in progress. Melovski says that there is also a possibility for building a sanitary station where the samples that are hurt or orphans would be taken care of and the members of MEA find them in the number of scientific walks around the forests in the country. “This ways of cooperation are of exclusive importance for both our association and the lynx and we think that the ZOO in Skopje will, in this way, contribute a lot to saving this rare wild animal”, pointed out Melovski. The director of the Skopje ZOO, Atanas Petrov, says that MEA will in future regularly supply the ZOO with scientific data on the wild in Macedonia and will put at disposal its expert and scientific capacities for giving opinions related to issues referring to animal protection. “So far we have had excellent cooperation with MEA and that is the reason we have decided to sign this memorandum and deepen that cooperation. I hope that MEA will help us get precise information about the results received from the activities taken for protection of the lynx in Macedonia. We will work together on studying griffon vultures, that here in the garden breed in captivity. We hope that in future there will be some scientific work and that we will manage to return such newly born griffon vultures back to the nature”, explained Petrov.   S.N.