On May 11 in Razgrad, at the “Ananie Yavashov” House Museum, the traveling exhibition “Traces of Disappearance” of “Velingrad ALCALIA” mineral water was presented.
The organizer of the event is the Regional History Museum – Razgrad. The opening was attended by museum specialists and citizens, who viewed the exhibition with interest. It was presented by Prof. Rositsa Angelova PhD, Head of the Department of “New and Recent History” at the Regional History Museum – Razgrad and a lecturer at the Shumen University “Bishop Konstantin Preslavski”.
“These 15 panels show us not only an exhibition, but also a message to all of us, to think about nature, about biodiversity, about how we should take care of the species around us, so that over time the small populations that remain of them do not remain only traces that are on the verge of extinction”, said Prof. Angelova.
She also emphasizes the educational subtext of the exhibition.
Each visitor can learn more about the individual endangered species by receiving additional information through QR codes located on the panel.
The exhibition was created as an initiative in 2024, and the interest in it is great. It will remain in Razgrad only until May 24, because it is also expected in other cities. The unique exhibition shows realistic casts of footprints of disappearing animals and birds, made of natural materials and completely recreating the traces in their natural habitats. Visitors lingered for a long time in front of the panel with bison footprints, which reminds them that in the forests of Voden, Razgrad region, they were one of the landmarks when this area could be freely entered. The footprints of a fallow deer and the beautiful capercaillie bird are also of interest.
The text of the panel reminds us that logging and poaching are destroying many habitats of these valuable and endangered species. The panel also features the wolf, which is also among the endangered species because illegal hunting of wolves is wiping out their population. The European wildcat, whose footprints are also on a panel in the exhibition, arouses curiosity among visitors because, although very rare, it is still found today in the depths of the forests in Ludogorie.
Within the exhibition, you can also see the prints of a brown bear, which, in order to be protected, should not have its and human tracks intertwined. Visitors from Razgrad can see on the panel what wild horses look like – also an endangered species. Tracks of birds with beautiful plumage are also shown – a peregrine falcon and a hazel grouse.
This beauty should not disappear, that only traces of it should not remain – this is the goal and message of the exhibition. This is an ecological, nature-friendly initiative that will undoubtedly have followers and there will be a future positive effect from it.
