Western Balkans Environment Programe

Leave No Trace - training on outdoor ethics and outdoor recreational impacts

Leave No Trace - training on outdoor ethics and outdoor recreational impacts as well as techniques to prevent and minimize such impacts.Leave No Trace (LNT) is international program designed to assist outdoor enthusiasts with their decisions about how to reduce their impacts when they hike, camp, picnic, snowshoe, run, bike, hunt, paddle, ride horses, fish, ski or climb. The program strives to educate all those who enjoy the outdoors about the nature of their recreational impacts as well as techniques to prevent and minimize such impacts. Leave No Trace is best understood as an educational and ethical program, not as a set of rules and regulations.

Taking in consideration that this type of education is very useful for tourist guides as well as a members of different outdoor associations and clubs, UNDP hired two trainers Mr. David Winter and Mr. James Lawhon from United States of America and, with support from Black Mountain company from Herceg Novi, two trainings for this program where organised in period from October 13th until 21st, in area of Mountain Orjen and seaside town Herceg Novi. In order to provide possibility for development of this programme in Montenegro thru organisation of workshops and trainings first training was organised for 12 representatives from Local tourism organization from Mojkovac, biking and mountaineers association and clubs. These 12 participants are carefully selected outdoor enthusiast and they became certificated Leave No Trace master educators, mining that in the future they will be able to train people and organize workshops and trainings. Second group of 12 people is trained to implement principles during they activities as tourist guides and members of biking and mountaineers association and clubs.