August 2019

New solar-thermal park in Alassa puts Cyprus vultures at risk

News of the Ministerial Council approving a framework for financial support of a solar-thermal park in Alassa from the State should have been welcoming. Especially because climate change is one of the most significant threats facing our planet today and renewable energy is part of the answer to this problem. It could have been welcoming […]

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“Our forests are dying” – here’s our manifesto

You have probably heard the devastating news about the fires currently destroying the Amazon rainforest – the result of formerly successful forest protection laws being rapidly dismantled. Not only does this vital ecosystem regulate the entire planet’s climate, but it is also home to an enormous wealth of rare and unique species found nowhere else. As

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Perko and Perka: the bird celebrities who brought White Storks back to Montenegro

For 116 years, not a single White Stork nested in Montenegro. Instead, migrating storks flew straight over the country in search of breeding grounds elsewhere. The last pair fled the country at the end of the 19th century, when illegal poaching and human disturbance became too intense. For years, it seemed Montenegro was simply too dangerous

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Cyprus increases hunting pressure on threatened Turtle Dove

As the EU takes legal action against France and Spain for failing to protect the Turtle Dove, hunting season in Cyprus continues as ‘business as usual’, and then some… The Turtle Dove was once a very common farmland bird species. But over the last 30 years, its European population has decreased dramatically due to increasing

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