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Activities
Akrotiri Spring Festival

BirdLife Cyprus, Terra Cypria, the Environment Department of the British Bases, Akrotiri community and Akrotiri Environmental Education Center are delighted to invite the public to the Akrotiri Spring Festival, a unique event dedicated to the environmental and cultural importance of Akrotiri Peninsula.

In the press
A first for Cyprus: €21,000 fine imposed for wildlife poisoning

A €21,000 fine was issued by the prosecuting authorities a few days ago for the killing of wild birds using poison baits. The fine represents a big step forward that will hopefully have a strong deterrent effect on similar illegal actions, which have a devastating impact on Cyprus wildlife.

All about birds
Five things green for the next President

As the biodiversity crisis deepens and global warming tightens its grip, we need policies that have the impact to begin reversing this ecological disaster. Here are ‘five things green’ BirdLife Cyprus would like to see candidates for the upcoming presidential election commit to.

All about birds
Six species poorer: the birds we’ve lost in the last decades

Since 1950, we have seen the disappearance of six breeding species from our island: the Black Vulture, Lesser Kestrel, Marbled Duck, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Dipper and, as recently as the 1980s, the Eastern Imperial Eagle. Six species may not sound like a big number to have lost over seven decades, but in ‘normal’ times, with background rates of extinction, it is probably fair to say that a person born in Cyprus in 1950 should only have witnessed one such loss over a lifetime.

All about birds
Illegal bird killing: the darker side of Cyprus

An opinion piece on illegal bird killing in Cyprus by Guy Shorrock, a former UK police officer and a wildlife crime investigator for the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK).

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