Implementation of the UNDP-GEF Project ”Integrated Ecosystem Management in the Prespa Lakes Basin of Albania, FYR of Macedonia and Greece” has began in 2007, after several years of preparation, in a regional environment described as differences in capacity, commitment and national policy across borders, which are strong constraints, in addition to questions of national sovereignty and policies, barriers to free trade, unsustainable productive activities, political instability etc. However, the entire region hosts unique habitats and species, important from both a European and global conservation perspective, which make the ecosystem of Prespa Lakes being considered as one of the Europe’s major transboundary “ecological bricks”…/…