#BirdLife Cyprus

Environmental organisations intensified criticism on Monday over the management of the Akamas peninsula, accusing the forestry department and the agriculture ministry of sustained inaction and continued breaches of legally binding ...

A total of 726,000 birds were illegally killed in 2025, BirdLife Cyprus said on Wednesday, presenting a survey that indicated that targeted enforcement delivers results, while progress can be easily reversed where ...

The European Union has designated the islets off the Karpasia peninsula as a conservation priority under a new international action plan for Audouin’s gull, as monitoring data shows the ...

Wetlands in Cyprus are under growing pressure from climate change and expanding development, BirdLife Cyprus warned on Monday, saying that even protected sites are struggling to cope with rising environmental ...

Alarm over serious ecological degradation at the Akrotiri wetlands was raised by BirdLife Cyprus on Tuesday, which urged an immediate official investigation into abnormal water inflows and pollution detected in ...

A Gyps Fulvus vulture, which had been brought to Cyprus from Spain in the framework of the Life with Vultures project, has fully recovered and was released back into the ...

Cooperation regarding the protection of wild birds and general biodiversity between the EAC and BirdLife is poised to be strengthened following the signing of a mutual agreement on Monday. “In ...

The annual coastal bird survey took place on the British bases area (SBA) coastline on September 22 and October 17, recording a total of 392 Eleonora’s Falcons, it was announced on Thursday. “...

A fourth batch of vultures that arrived in Cyprus from Spain in February were released into the wild late on Thursday as part of efforts to strengthen their population, BirdLife ...

The environment department has rejected the proposed development of 69 villas with a reception building and sewerage treatment plant at the entrance to Akamas, a move welcomed on Monday by BirdLife ...

New concerns about the construction of an aquaculture port on the Pentakomo coastline, home to one of the Mediterranean’s rarest marine mammals, were raised on Tuesday by Birdlife Cyprus. ...

BirdLife Cyprus said on Friday it is taking the government to court, hoping to halt construction of a port in Pentakomo that endangers the habitat of the endangered Mediterranean monk ...

An increase in bird trapping has been recorded, highlighting the failure of the police anti-poaching unit to tackle organised trapping groups, BirdLife Cyprus said in its autumn 2024 trapping report. “Some 620,000 ...

Fifteen vultures from Spain arrived in Cyprus on Friday, ornithological charity BirdLife Cyprus said. The measure is part of ongoing efforts to save Cyprus’ critically endangered griffon vulture population, with ...

Four environmental organisations slammed the forestry department on Tuesday for not sticking to the guidelines of a Special Ecological Assessment Report (SEA) covering works in the Akamas. Terra Cypria and ...

In what might appear to be a return to the Middle Ages, Diko MP Chrysanthos Savvides suggested this week that the mediaeval practice of falconry should be legalised to stop ‘...

A small bird, a chiffchaff, was found in a bird lover’s garden over Christmas after having flown to the island all the way from Hungary, BirdLife said on Tuesday. ...

Pentakomo harbour threatens seals, say environmentalists Environmental organisations have called for the immediate termination of works on the Pentakomo harbour, which are threatening the Mediterranean monk seal and the surrounding ...

The construction of a windfall farm in Larnaca violates environmental protection conditions, two NGOs charged on Tuesday.In a joint statement BirdLife Cyprus and Terra Cypria described the construction at ...

Markings will be placed on a total of 12.5 kilometres of overhead power lines, with the aim of reducing the number of birds flying into them and being killed, ornithological charity ...

BirdLife Cyprus on Monday expressed its strong opposition to the environment department expanding the Electricity Authority’s (EAC) overhead network in the protected territory of the endangered Griffon vulture, at ...

Major concerns were raised by BirdLife Cyprus on Friday over the approval for the construction of a new fish farming port in Pentakomos in an area important for the conservation ...

Two more Griffon vultures have been found dead from electrocution on the power distribution network in Cyprus, NGO Birdlife has announced. The latest fatalities bring the number of vultures killed ...

Cyprus is among countries that have so far failed to temporarily ban the hunting of turtle doves, an avian species still trying to recover from an “alarming population decline”. BirdLife ...