🇬🇷Greece

On 20 October 2026, a week-old orphaned monk seal pup found on a Kythira beach was ferried to Piraeus and onto MOm's 24-hour rehab unit, part of a recovery that produced a 40-year record of births in 2025.

Born from the ashes of Greece's 2018 Mati wildfire, We4all has replanted more than a million trees across the country's scorched hillsides.

For over four decades, volunteers have walked Greece's beaches every summer night to protect the Mediterranean's largest loggerhead turtle nesting population.

In Athens, a skate charity gives displaced children from dozens of countries a shared board and a rare say over their own bodies and choices.

Water buffalo and cattle are the conservation machinery here: grazed back into shape, the wet meadows of Lesser Prespa now hold the largest breeding colony of Dalmatian pelicans on Earth.

If your flat has no air conditioning and the night never drops below 30°C, the useful thing a city can give you is a cool room to sit in — and Athens counted 35,000 visits.