(CNN) — For a place that many people have barely heard of, this beautiful body of water has enough names. Depending where you come from, it could be Shkodra, Shkodër or Scutari, but to most visitors ...

On the biggest lake in the Balkans, rangers say it is easier to catch a drug trafficker than a poacher amid warnings of ecological disaster. Some do it the easy way on Lake Skadar, poking electrodes ...

Lake Shkoder -- the largest lake in the Balkans and surely one of the most beautiful -- has faced a variety of environmental threats over the past decade on both its Albanian and Montenegrin sides.

Illegal fishers in the environmentally endangered Lake Skadar are seen as the likely culprits behind Thursday night’s arson attack on the home of a well-known activist battling to keep poachers at bay ...

Straddling the Montenegrin-Albanian border, Lake Shkoder is facing environmental threats from a variety of man-made sources. In this first of a two-part series on the Balkans' largest lake, RFE/RL ...

For a place that many people have barely heard of, this beautiful body of water has enough names. Depending where you come from, it could be Shkodra, Shkodër or Scutari, but to most visitors it’s ...

For a place that many people have barely heard of, this beautiful body of water has enough names. Depending where you come from, it could be Shkodra, Shkodër or Scutari, but to most visitors it’s ...