Green energy for green oases, that’s the brief name of the project that will be implemented in the future in the SRP Zasavica. The value of the work is 80,000 euros, and it is realized in cooperation with UNDP.
Today, Zasavica is a tourist attraction. It has a unique farm of donkeys and Podolian beef, horses, mangulica pigs, visited annually by more than 150,000 tourists. Water means life here.
“In the seventies of the last century, the locals drilled this 260-meter-deep well in Atrterje, which has the same capacity to this day. Excess overflow water goes to the spa center where horses, cows, pigs are bathed, only donkeys don’t like water, they run away from water. Their spa center is rolling in the dust,” said Paja Papić, deputy manager of SRP Zasavica.
That’s why the reserve’s expert team experimentally drilled a well powered by solar panels in the biggest depression of the pasture and thus revived another spa center for all the inhabitants of the reserve, the surrounding wildlife and birds – a special attraction is the black ibis!
“Man today is surprised by this because he is used to cattle in a corral, in a barn, and this used to be completely normal. 50, 60 years ago, horses, cows, and pigs ran here, there were thousands of pigs,” Papić points out.
Energy is also green in Zasavica
“I think that we are the only reserve of nature in the former Yugoslavia, Serbia, and perhaps still, that is completely energy independent. As you can see, we have a solar power plant. We are both a producer and a consumer”, said Slobodan Simić, manager of SRP Zasavica.
Camping here has been converted into glamping. Cruising through the reserve, the most expensive donkey milk cheese in the world, mangulica products, are just some of the tourist attractions.
“Gneiss from Brazil, a stone that is a billion years old, is the largest and heaviest stone imported to Serbia. In cooperation with Professor Karavelic, a famous sculptor, we wanted to create something that is also the oldest in this country, a sculpture of a bull as a symbol of strength,” said Slobodan Simic.
And the most powerful message from the eco-safari is that in the general welfare economy, tradition has a future.
Source: RTS
Source: energetskiportal.rs
