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’...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
