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Latest from Cyprus

📰 Update · 1w

Οι αρμόδιες αρχές καλούνται να διασφαλίσουν την πρόσβαση του κοινού σε περιβαλλοντική πληροφόρηση και την άμεση εφαρμογή της ισχύουσας νομοθεσίας

📰 Update · 1w

Το Terra Cypria απαντά σε αναληθείς, ψευδείς και ανυπόστατες αναφορές

📰 Update · 1w

Cyprus’s Sea Turtles Travel… to the Pages of Cyprus Airways’ Magazine!

📰 Update · 3w

Lady’s Mile: The Law Exists. Why Isn’t It Being Enforced? Terra Cypria’s Television Interventions

📰 Update · Jul 2

Nature Conservation and Communications Officer

📰 Update · Jun 18

Phragmographysis: Our new project on the rivers of Cyprus

📰 Update · Jun 17

Cycling Route for Climate Justice in Limassol

📰 Update · Jun 15

Lady’s Mile: Προστατευόμενη παραλία στα χαρτιά – εγκατάλειψη στην πράξη

Society for the Protection of Turtles (SPOT)

Guarding North Cyprus's Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches

Ocean Life

Volunteers formed in the 1980s now screen thousands of green and loggerhead turtle nests a season on North Cyprus's beaches, turning a near-silent coastline into one of the Mediterranean's nesting strongholds.

2,400nestsSea turtle nests recorded in a single season (2020, all-time high)
162%Increase in green turtle nest counts since 1993
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Terra Cypria - The Cyprus Conservation Foundation

Mapping and Defending Cyprus's Vanishing Wetlands

Fresh Water

On an island where dam levels have dropped to a fraction of capacity, this Limassol-based foundation mapped every wetland in Cyprus and now fights to keep its rivers and salt lakes alive.

373wetlandsWetlands identified and mapped nationwide
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