In 2007, a project named Adriatic Montenegro 2007 was initiated and realised under the protection of IDF. Stimulated by the suggestion of Vincent Kalkman from the European Invertebrate Survey, The Netherlands, distribution data for the Odonata of Adriatic Montenegro were collected and used to create distribution maps. These data and maps should then be used in the evaluation of conservation measures for individual odonate species as well as for the IUCN Red List of the Mediterranean countries (organized by the IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation) and the Project on an atlas of European dragonflies (a co-operation of all European countries organised by the European Invertebrate Survey, The Netherlands).
The project Macedonia 2008 was initiated to obtain an overview of the current situation of the dragonfly fauna in Macedonia. Macedonia here refers to the territory of a former federal unit of the SFR Yugoslavia, and not to whole Macedonia. The records collected during this project are to become part of the data base for an Atlas of Odonata of Europe coordinated by Vincent Kalkman (European Invertebrate Survey, The Netherlands). Similar to other countries in this region, the odonate fauna of Macedonia is underresearched. So far, the largest research interest was directed towards the large lakes in Macedonia (Ohrid, Dojran and Prespa Lakes) (Filevska, 1954; Karaman, 1981; Karaman, 1984-85, Peters & Hackethal, 1986), the parts of the country under great influence of Mediterranean climate (Adamović, 1990) and the area around the capital city, Skopje (Adamović, 1949; Karaman, 1969; Peters & Hackethal, 1986). Some of the goals of Macedonia 2008 were: i) to visit places that had not been previously studied, ii) to re-visit places that have significantly changed compared to previous research and iii) to visit localities that are characteristic for this region.
