On June 30, 2015, the fifth meeting of the Public Council for Atanasovsko lake was held in the Business Incubator Hall in Burgas, 28 Kniaz Al. Battenberg Str.

Behind the complex and difficult to understand headline "Trends in Hydrological and Hydrobiological Conditions in Atanasovsko Lake" are in fact the analyzes and surveys on the condition of the water and the aquatic inhabitants of Atanasovsko lake, which are most rapidly affected by the changed ecological conditions, but their monitoring gives us an opportunity to assess the impact of the Salt of Life project on the inhabitants of the fragile ecosystem of the lagoon.

The good news is that 10km of a 23km bypass channel has already been cleaned as a result of the project. By December, the planned work hs been done ontime, but with the intervention of additional aggravating factors in February 2015 (the discharge of dams over the lake, the huge amount of rain that was poured from September to January, etc.), the situation changed and the consequences for the whole lake were great heavy. 20,000m shafts and 10,000m dikes were destroyed as a result of heavy flooding, but no compensation from the state for the time being. The recovery will be at the expense of Chernomorski Solnitsi Ltd.

It can be seen that the flood risk reduction measures taken through the Salt of Life Project, LIFE + are already working, but until the majority of the activities are completed, the risks will still be high.

It is necessary to act strategically and complexly - something we relied on the updated Management Plan (MP) of the Atanasovsko Lake Reserve, but this was not seen in this version of the MP, which was presented for public discussion in April. We have made over 200 plan adjustments, a very small part of which is reflected by the team making it. We are awaiting the final decision of the MoEW to which we have submitted our proposals.

BBF presented to the Public Council its project "Lagoon in the eye of the drones", funded by a Moto-Pfohe donation program for the preservation of the natural and cultural heritage in Bulgaria and the challenges it faces.