Cyprus taken to EU court over precious sites
The European Commission has referred Cyprus to the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) due to its failure to fulfil obligations under the Habitats Directive, which aims to protect over a ...
Dedicating their life to turtle conservation
My daughter’s name is Lara. Lara is also a place where I created some of my fondest childhood memories. Within those memories, are tiny little creatures scrambling to make ...
While big conservation battles rage, we are losing ground everywhere
A reprieve for Akamas, but what of the wider countryside and common species?
By Martin Hellicar
The latest in a long series of ‘save Akamas’ campaigns staves off the worst ...
Art as way of illuminating endangered wildlife
By Martin Clark
As a child in 1963, I first became aware that all was not well with our beautiful planet. I know this sounds like rather a young age (I ...
Conference looks at managing the Akamas
A three-day conference aiming to explore the conservation, management and governance of protected areas and its application in the Akamas peninsula began on Wednesday.
Some of the core themes being ...
Swiss foundation donates funds to conserve mediaeval church and mosque
The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage in Cyprus and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) signed a grant with a Swiss foundation worth close to million dollars on Monday for conservation ...
Cement factory donates land for conservation, a first for the island
Vassiliko Cement Works donated four plots of land, amounting to an area of around 45,000 square metres, to environmental NGO Terra Cypria on Friday.
The land, which falls within a Natura 2000 ...
Very few turtle nests at Lady’s Mile amid increasing human activity
It is possible for people and turtles to co-exist
By Panagiotis Georgiou
Lady’s Mile is a 5km long beach with exceptional ecological value, that supports a plethora of plants ...
Ineia locals protest over Akamas plan, stop short of digging up turtle nests
There was a strong police presence in Lara in the Akamas peninsula on Sunday in efforts to prevent the residents of Ineia from digging turtle nests on Lara beach.
The ...
Mourning the Akamas that could have been
Far too much concrete: The misguided plans are not just a huge nature conservation failure, but a monumental failure of common sense
By Martin Hellicar
By the time you read ...
Falconry, Cyprus’ intangible cultural heritage
The ancient art of falconry has a part to play in modern conservation
By Constantinos Antoniou
Who can imagine our island as a Mediterranean wildlife oasis where nobles, knights and ...
Saving the world’s rarest marine mammal in Cyprus
Joint projects in place to save the Monk Seal are showing results
By Marios Papageorgiou
Did you know that the Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus) is currently the most endangered ...
Akamas: soon to be wild no more
The latest of many plans for the peninsula would protect a tiny part of it but with visitor access made all-too-easy, and development sprouting up all over the rest of ...