#birdlife

Local NGO BirdLife Cyprus in an open letter to environment department director, Costas Hadjipanayiotou, said there was a need to urgently issue a negative assessment report on the latest proposed ...

Two sniffer dogs trained to find poison are already proving their worth Sofie and Dixie, two border collies specially trained to detect poison baits as part of an EU-funded programme ...

BirdLife Cyprus has called on the government to reinstate stiff penalties for illegal bird trapping, stressing that the European Commission is likely to start fining Cyprus for failing to tackle ...

Fieldwork by BirdLife Cyprus shows worrying signs of a big increase in trapping levels, the NGO has said as it called on the state to restore higher fines. “Our latest ...

BirdLife Cyprus presented House president Annita Demetriou with 13,700 signatures on Tuesday it gathered to protest the relaxing of fines imposed on the illegal trapping of songbirds. MPs passed a bill ...

The first 10 Griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) arrived on Friday evening at Larnaca airport from Spain, of the 30 that will reinforce the rapidly dwindling local population of the species. According to ...

Several bird species were observed at a sanctuary installed by BirdLife Cyprus two weeks ago in the village of Frenaros, in the Famagusta district, the conservationist organisation announced on Facebook ...

Environmental NGO BirdLife Cyprus has launched an email campaign to protest development projects threatening the Akamas peninsula. By following this link, participants can co-sign a letter posing a number of ...

The Paphos branch of the Cyprus Union of Farmers (Eka) has reported an increase in damaged crops in the last few weeks. It said the problem was particularly acute in ...

BirdLife Cyprus is asking for assurances from the Game Service that an EU-mandated programme to limit hunting of the threatened turtle dove this autumn will be effectively monitored. It fears ...

A BirdLife Cyprus study made available on Thursday revealed that Lake Soros, located in the southwestern part of the salt lake near Meneou, is at risk of lead contamination due ...

For the first time in over 16 years, a pair of ravens has successfully nested in the government-controlled areas and specifically in the Akamas area, BirdLife Cyprus said on its Facebook ...

An eight-year-old Griffon Vulture brought to Cyprus from Crete as part of a conservation project, has been dubbed the “ultimate wanderer” by BirdLife Cyprus after covering a total of 4,683km ...

The British bases have recorded a close to 95 per cent reduction in the illegal trapping of ambelopoulia, also known as black caps, it was announced on Thursday. These findings were ...

Construction of a new highway will damage bird habitats and is proceeding against the advice of environment studies, BirdLife said on Friday. BirdLife has raised concerns about the decision taken ...

The recycled water lakes of the Larnaca sewerage board located in Meneou have been transformed into a wetland where every year thousands of migratory birds find refuge, manager of the ...

About 17,000 birds spend the winter in the wetlands of Cyprus, BirdLife Cyprus and the game and wildlife service on Monday to mark World Wetlands Day, marked globally on February 2. On ...