What is your name?
Dragan Jonić
Where are you based?
Belgrade, Pirot and the Balkan Mountains, Serbia
Which languages do you speak?
Serbian and English. Russian to a lesser extent.
Tell us about your professional background and your experience.
Chemical engineer by profession, translator by occupation (have been in the trade for twenty years now, I’d say I have excellent command of English) and die-hard environmental activist by vocation. Fighting against the development of run-of-river hydropower plants in vulnerable and sensitive mountainous biotopes in Serbia. Essayist and publicist in national dailies and weeklies, for years. Intermittently.
Spending much of my time in Serbian rural communities building awareness on environmental issues, polution, detrimental run-of-river small hydropower plants, environmentally harmful big-scale mining, health and safety issues. I worked hard to earn the trust of the local population, but it paid out in the end.
Which of the following topics are closest to you?
Health and social care
Your online presence
Some in Serbian, some in English. Don’t really believe in personal advertising.
Danas, independent national daily (in Serbian):
Web page of the informal activist group “Let’s defend the Stara Planina Rivers” (in English):
https://novastaraplanina.com/en/ecological-anarchy-in-a-world-of-quantum-physics/
https://novastaraplanina.com/en/glyphosate-faithful-friend-at-table-and-in-body/
And of course, some of it on Edgeryders: