#turtles

Nature conservation benefits both the species protected but also local communities, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Monday during his visits to the beaches of Mavrallis and Lara. In the ...

Feeding sea turtles is considered harassment of marine life which is punishable by law, the fisheries and environment departments of the agriculture ministry said on Thursday, citing relevant complaints. In ...

Not a single one of Ineia’s demands for modifications to the Akamas plan has been respected, community leader Yiangos Tsivicos said on Monday, adding that myths about the region ...

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 ...

The fisheries department on Thursday expressed its regret over threats by the Ineia community leader against turtle nests in the area, and by extension the results of the protection programme ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis warned on Wednesday that Ineia landowners were entitled to stage protests but not to engage in extreme behaviour or cause damage after the community leader threatened ...

More than 2,000 sea turtle nests were located in Cyprus in 2021, Simos Demetropoulos, a biologist-environmentalist, told CNA. Demetropoulos and Italian Angela Mastrogiacomo, the biologists of the Mediterranean Turtle Research and Conservation ...

There has been an increase in the nesting of sea turtles and especially the caretta-caretta turtle in recent years said Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis on Wednesday, adding that he hopes ...

Given recent reports from the public about turtle sightings in shallow waters around the coast, the fisheries department said on Monday it was normal and no reason for concern. “During ...

By Hereward Holland Each year Christian Ndombe and other park rangers scour the beaches of Democratic Republic of Congo’s vanishing coastline for turtle nests, bringing the eggs to a ...

By Alexandra Valencia Scientists have discovered that a type of giant tortoise present on one of Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands is not from the species it was previously thought to ...

The US Ambassador visited Lara Bay in the Akamas on Tuesday morning where she observed the release of newly hatched baby turtles into the sea. Judith Gale Garber, who previously ...

Visitors at the Parasolia beach in Kiti on Thursday were thrilled to see scores of newly hatched baby turtles making their way to the water. The baby loggerhead sea turtles, (...

The green light for the first organised public beach to be established in a protected area, a turtle nesting spot, spells disaster for the future, the Cyprus Greens said on ...

Giving away live animals at event or festivals is illegal and cruel to the animals, the veterinary department said on Friday following reports that wedding guests had been given baby ...

The fisheries department on Thursday said the sea turtle nesting season is starting soon and called on people to observe all measures in areas where they lay their eggs. The ...

The development of two organised beaches in turtle nesting areas has been on the agenda since 2012, the fisheries department said on Friday, clarifying that despite “misleading reports”, the goal is ...