Starting in November 2012, CED began its cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Arts in Skopje and with the Rural Network Right to Village, gathering the Shar region’s population, in addition to activists from Kosovo, to implement debates and forums and advertise the effort to change the Shar Mountains into a national park.
In 2013 CED joined the network for cross-border cooperation with Kosovo and Albania to protect the Shar Mountains and persuade the Macedonian government to declare it as a national park. Uniting in this fashion, this network embraced a common vision of the Shar mountains as a natural haven with an intrinsic value and need to be protected.
With the support of the Macedonian Ecological Society, the organization conducted a seminar in 2012 for all activists and interested parties in the region on the topic of protected space, explaining the meanings and benefits of a national park to attendees.
From 2012 to 2014 the organization implemented various events and worked to spread information to promote the Shar region’s beauty. By making the region aware of the rich plant and animal world of the Shar, creating info tables placed along the road to the natural site Three Waters, placing billboards on main roads and highways, gathering support from the schools in the municipality, advertising with pictures, and by hosting events designed to inform both the media and people, CED has brought Tearce to embrace, own, and identify with the effort to protect the Shar region from the dangers of climate change.