Habitat Protection in Cyprus
2009-11-03 10:18:00 I was really excited to get the quarterly edition of BirdLife Cyprus (the magazine of BirdLife Cyprus, as it’s always packed with informational goodies. One article in particular was worth sharing, by Campaigns Officer Eleni Zissimou. I wanted to quote from it, as it details the situation in Cyprus for Important Bird Areas (IBAs) and ...
By: Migrations
What Birds Are Trapped By Poachers?
2009-10-29 13:59:00 This is part of the series of posts Poaching in Cyprus FAQ What Birds Are Caught And Killed By Poachers? According to the first report on bird trapping levels by BirdLife Cyprus in 2002, more than 150 species of birds (39.5% of the total Cyprus check-list) have been recorded as caught with limesticks or mist-nets. (Hubbard 1967; ...
By: Migrations
Bird Poaching Still a Problem in Cyprus
2009-10-06 09:15:00 Charlie beat me to it, but Martin Hellicar sent me also the latest report to the Bureau of the Bern Convention Standing Committee on Illegal trapping, killing and trade of birds in Cyprus. The report is not good (emphasis mine): The situation on the ground in the Autumn of 2009 looks very bad, first results from ...
By: Migrations
Limesticks and Mist Nets
2009-09-28 11:20:00 This is part of the series of posts Poaching in Cyprus FAQ What are limesticks and mist nets? Songbirds are trapped (and later killed) for the illegal ambelopoulia through the use of limesticks and mist nets. Most trapping takes place in the South, and especially the Southeast, of the island during the Autumn migration, although the trappers ...
By: Migrations
The ?Good Days? of Ambelopoulia
2009-09-22 14:51:00 So I finally came across a literate defense of the ambelopoulia practice here in Cyprus, but it still comes up short. On the website ?????? ?????? (Cyprus Hunting), an article originally published in the Cypriot newspaper ???????????? by ?????? ?????? was reproduced, titled “?? ????? ????? ??? “???????” ???? ???? ???????” (”The good days of ...
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What Ambeloupoulia Is
2009-09-16 15:11:00 This is part of the series of posts Poaching in Cyprus FAQ What is ambelopoulia? mbelopoulia is a controversial dish of pickled or grilled songbirds served in some Cypriot restaurants. Warbler species such as Blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla), and old world flycatchers such as European Robins (Erithacus rubecula) are the most prized, although any small bird of about ...
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Responding to Bird Poachers in Cyprus
2009-09-15 09:54:00 This is part of the series of posts Poaching in Cyprus FAQ What can you do to help change public opinion in Cyprus? Some people from outside Cyprus, and especially western/northern Europe and the US, will express the personal reaction on seeing that so many birds are being killed on Cyprus by asking for a boycott of ...
By: Migrations
Feral Cats and Birds (in Cyprus)
2009-09-10 18:08:00 Those subscribed to my Twitter account will note that yesterday I had a minor blow-up when I saw this article in Audubon Magazine when I got to the bit where Ted Williams claims that we give some respect to the animal rights’ group The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Basically, I had heard ...
By: Migrations
Spring Hunting in Malta to End Permanently
2009-09-10 16:22:00 EU bans Maltese bird hunt (Wildlife Extra News): Malta has finally been forced to comply with European bird protection laws, following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice which has declared that Malta has been breaching European law by allowing the spring hunting of quail and turtle dove passing through the islands on migration. ...
By: Migrations
Energy and Water Saving Smart Shower
2009-09-05 00:05:00 It is portable, stylish and most of all green. That is what best sums up this Energy Saving and Water Saving Smart Shower. It is designed for the less-abled users to shower easily, combined with an eco-friendly twist in the form of energy and water savings. From the looks of the design, it may look ...
Looking For An Eco Yard Trimmer? Try LEHR
2009-09-04 03:59:00 As the Alternative Consumer blog recently pointed out, with fall comes fall yard clean up. Are you ready? Leaves, grass cutting, and pick-up. Oh! what fun is around the corner. Well at least fall yard clean ups make for great exercise jaunts. In fact, it’s estimated that 30 minutes of yard work can burn 165 calories. ...
Eco-Friendly Garden Hose Nozzles
2009-09-03 02:17:00 We are all aware that to water plants, the control on the amount of water we use should be addressed. With water being a scarce resource, the need to save on it has become apparent. Hoses are being discouraged by most but while others disregard it, the issue is really beyond the hands of anyone ...
Conservation of Power in Boiler Dept.
2009-09-01 16:28:00 Sir, Please suggest me the other methods of conserving power in Boiler, ours is a 7 tpd boiler using Paddy husk as its fuel, There is a VFD for ID fan. Please give me the other hints to minimize the power consumption. Yours S. Gururaja
Power Conservation and Boilers
2009-09-01 16:28:00 Sir, Please suggest me the other methods of conserving power in Boiler, ours is a 7 tpd boiler using Paddy husk as its fuel, There is a VFD for ID fan. Please give me the other hints to minimize the power consumption. Yours S. Gururaja
Memorex 7? Eco-friendly Digital Photo Frame
2009-08-31 05:41:00 Here is a digital photo frame that any eco-friendly consumer may want to get. The Memorex 7? digital photo frame is made to adhere towards RoHS standards that are against the use of lead and mercury. It packaging is made from 80% recycled pressed paper board and the manual and other paper-related add-ons are made ...
Image of the Day
2009-08-27 18:03:00 (Click on the image for the article) Tagged: Cyprus
By: Migrations
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
2009-08-22 02:51:00 Sea Shepherd Conservation SocietyShared via AddThis
Money To Burn: CL & P, UI Have Millions In Energy-Efficiency Funds To Offer
2009-07-06 04:56:00 Image by 80sAustin via Flickr By LYNN DOAN, The Hartford Courant Late last year, Connecticut Light & Power Co. was desperate for energy conservation money. Several programs it runs for the state, which pay for power-saving improvements from lightbulbs in homes to tinted windows in office parks, were oversubscribed. The company had promised $10 million it didn’t have ...
By: News for Greens
New Concepts in Water Conservation: the Reduce-Your-Use Bathmat
2009-06-30 12:31:00 This year's finalists for INDEX: AIGA Aspen Design Challenge conceptualized a bathmat that inuits when you need water and when you to cut you off.
Image of the Day
2009-06-29 12:19:00 This is what most Cypriots think of when you put ‘birds’ and ‘a fun time’ in the same sentence. Either that, or eating them. This particular picture is from Fall 2007, when two Cypriot men found a convenient spot to go take some target practice, and shot 52 Red-Footed Falcons. They were caught, taken to ...
By: Migrations
Revolting Comment of the Day
2009-05-25 19:15:00 On a lark, I asked in a Cyprus discussion forum today about their thoughts on the Cypriot ambelopoulia ‘delicacy,’ and got this revolting response in return: Two questions though – How would you know that the wild ones are better? (Why have souvlaki if wild is better, why not have mouflon for dinner?) And, what good ...
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An Endemic Warbler Under Threat?
2009-05-18 13:43:00 Recently, I was told something about Sardinian Warblers (Sylvia melanocephala) pushing the endemic Cyprus Warblers (Sylvia melanothorax) out of some of their range here in Cyprus in recent years. That could be a big deal, with Cyprus Warblers which have such a restricted range to begin with, even if they are currently listed as a ...
By: Migrations
Cyprus report from the Committee Against Bird Slaughter
2009-05-10 16:36:00 Following yesterday’s press release of actions in Cyprus by the Committee Against Bird Slaughter, I’d like to parse through the CABS report in more detail (PDF). It’s pretty good, and begins with this section: The preferred quarry of the poachers is small song birds, principally warblers, flycatchers and robins. They trap the birds either for their ...
By: Migrations
?Bird Activists Remove Over 2000 Limesticks in Cyprus?
2009-05-09 13:05:00 I hadn’t heard anything about this until just now, and I spent the entire morning with about 20 of the most active members of BirdLife Cyprus (birdwatching, of course). But apparently, via the English-speaking Cypriot news site CyprusMail, Bird Activists Remove Over 2000 Limesticks in Cyprus: BIRD ACTIVISTS from Germany, Italy and the UK removed and ...
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Helping Starving Griffon Vultures
2009-05-01 15:18:00 The Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvis) have been faring rather badly in Cyprus in recent decades. Lanate poisoning (used in an attempt to kill off wild dogs), lead shot from hunters, and lack of food have reduced the number of vultures in Cyprus to only about a dozen or so birds - I’m not sure the ...
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The EU Birds Directive and Its Application to Cyprus
2009-04-29 12:03:00 I asked Martin Hellicar of BirdLife Cyprus recently to point me towards the relevant EU directives that pertain to bird conservation in Cyprus, and was directed towards the European Community’s Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of wild birds, known as ‘The Birds Directive’ or BD for short. As Hellicar described: The Birds Directive lays down regulations ...
By: Migrations
Habitat Descruction vs Global Warming as Primary Conservation Problem
2009-04-28 08:23:00 I came across two related stories recently that instigate a debate more than academic, regarding environmental conservation. First, a 6-month-old BBC News article that I’d missed, discussed an economics report suggesting that deforestation worldwide “dwarfs the global banking crisis”. The study, on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (or TEEB), is accessible here, but the ...
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Martin Hellicar Answers
2009-04-23 21:04:00 From 10,000 Birds, An Interview with Martin Hellicar of BirdLife Cyprus: A few weeks ago we posted an article entitled ?Cyprus: killing Europe?s Songbirds for a Snack?, which was triggered by a shocking report released by BirdLife Cyprus As we wrote at the time, BirdLife Cyprus had determined that between March 2008 and February 2009 a ...
By: Migrations
Energy Conservation Projects
2009-04-16 06:13:00 Where can I get information/ e-books about different energy conservating idea?
Warblers on Limesticks
2009-04-11 13:28:00 Today’s birdwatching outing was a productive one, with 10 new year birds added to the list. However, there was one big negative: finding limesticks (sticky glue on sticks for trapping birds, which are later served as an illegal delicacy called ambelopoulia). Stavros and I found four limesticks set, two with birds already caught. We freed ...
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Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air: the Freakonomics of Conservation, C
2009-04-09 15:47:00 From Boing Boing: David JC MacKay's "Sustainable Energy -- Without the Hot Air" may be the best technical book about the environment that I've ever read. In fact, if I have any complaint about this book, it's in how it's presented, with its austere cover and spartan title, I assume
Migratory Birds served in Cypriot Restaurants
2009-03-24 13:32:00 a href=”http://www.birdlife-.org/news/news/2009/03/cyprus.h-tml”>BirdLife International - “It is an unacceptable toll and a depressing trend, which ever way you look at it”, said Martin Hellicar, Executive Manager at Birdlife Cyprus. BirdLife Cyprus have been systematically monitoring illegal trapping with mist nets and limesticks since 2002, with the support of the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK). Trappers usually target ...
By: Migrations
Cyprus Birds in the News
2009-03-17 07:39:00 I’m a big fan of GrrlScientist’s long-running weekly Birds in the News series, and occasionally base my decision of what is news and what isn’t in the bird world on her posts. So this week, she links to an article about Cyprus not unlike some items I’ve mentioned in the past about Cyprus: In a special ...
By: Migrations
A Culture of Killing Birds
2009-02-23 15:13:00 Here’s something that struck me as relevant to migrations. No, I’m not living in Malta, nor do I know much about it. But bird hunting and trapping is a very popular thing here in Cyprus as well, I so kinda feel some empathy for the conservationists in Malta. Which brings me to the interesting bit: ...
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Bacon Wrapped Conservation
2009-01-31 12:01:00 What could be better than having a Marianas Trench Marine National Monument? How about a Marianas Trench Marine National Monument wrapped in bacon?You can also have bacon wrapped Saipan Blog. Bacon wrapped Must Be the Humidity. White sneakers wrapped in bacon. Bacon wrapped fish wrap.
By: The Saipan Blog
I Heart Handmade Tshirt (From Etsy)
2009-01-27 23:57:00 Are you a big fan of handmade? Are you in love with just about every item found on Etsy? If so, then you will go crazy over this cute t shirt i just found. Ever since Etsy came on the scene a few years ago, handmade is so in and so chic and so very ...
Teens For Jeans - Do Something.org Campaign
2009-01-27 23:28:00 I went shopping this past weekend at my local mall. And by local i mean 2 hours away. I live in a small town. I stumbled upon a fantastic new campaign called Teens for Jeans at Aeropostale. I found out about the green program through a small postcard on the sales counter. So i decided to ...
Recycled Album Cover Notepad Features Barbarella
2009-01-27 21:44:00 One would think it a tragedy to see a classic album cover turned into a paper notepad. But what if the album cover was headed to a local landfill to die a horrible death? Yes then it would be perefectly ok to see ACDC or Elvis Presley in notepad form. This is the case at ...
KFC UK Goes For Eco Packaging
2009-01-27 13:00:00 Fast food restaurants are having a hard time in the UK over waste paper and packaging, in order for KFC to reduce their annual rubbish out by fourteen hundred tonnes, they are planning on changing their packing to a more eco friendly type. Instead of the traditional cardboard boxes and clamshells, they will putting their food ...
London awakes to Polar Bear on the Thames
2009-01-27 11:36:00 It sounds so amazing that it could have true, in fact an iceberg floating down the river Thames is not a normal occurrence, at least I have never seen it before. However, an iceberg with a stranded polar bear and its cub on, well it just has to be a great piece of PR. Of course ...
What Can You Make With Used Egg Cartons? Plenty
2009-01-27 04:43:00 Apparently plenty, if you are smart and resourceful. There are over 20 uses for old egg cartons on the Cult Case blog. They have gathered up a fantastic round of creative egg carton reuse. And when i say creative, i mean creative. There are lamp shades, crayon organizers, floor chairs, concrete, and so much more. All ...
Cut Price Sunforce Wind Generator
2009-01-26 12:00:00 This is a great opportunity to get a roof top wind generator at a great price; it will assist in the running of all the electrical appliances in the home. What makes this device interesting is that it only has two moving parts and has been designed to operate in a smooth and quiet manner. Features: Volts: ...
Easy DIY Cat Scratcher
2009-01-24 03:27:00 Cardboard, Cat Scratcher, cloth, Conservation, DIY, Earth Friendly, Exacto, fabric, Home and Garden, project, recipe, Recycle, Recycle Related posts DIY: From T Shirt To Halter Top Build your own eco friendly surfboard What Can You Make With 150 Old Music CD’s? Wait! Don’t throw that out, i can probably make something with it. Video on Several Eco Friendly Products Transforming Your Old ...
Vegan Hiking Boot For Men By Garmont
2009-01-24 01:30:00 Conservation, Earth Friendly, Fashion and Beauty, garmont, hiking boot, mens, Vegan, Vegan Related posts Mens Vegan Wingtip Shoes Win Vegan Freebie! Versatile Vegan Boot Vegetarian SummerFest 2008 Coming Vegan Wedge Boots Vegan wallets save cash and the world Vegan Sour Cream Vegan Shoes For Toddlers By Wild Dill
VegaWatt: From Veggie Oil To Electric Power
2009-01-23 20:50:00 Business, company, Conservation, Earth Friendly, eatery, electricity, Green News, incentive, LEED, leed certification, Local, OIl, power, rebate, Recycle, Rent, reuse, Vega Watt, vegetable oil Related posts Walmart Pledges To Use Local Farmers Man blows up garage making bio fuel Greasestock 2008: The Cars of the Future Donald Trump?s Golf Course Gets Go Ahead Check Lowest Gas Prices At Gas Buddy.com ZipCar: Car ...
Waste Food From Supermarkets Turned Into Power
2009-01-23 15:00:00 Alternative Energy, Arts and Entertainment, Buildings, Conservation, Consumerism, Eco Friendly, landfill sites, methane, scotland, supermarkets, waste food Related posts UK Supermarket Starts Eco Friendly Deliveries The GreenBag launched by Shoemart Supermarket Tesco Add New Eco Shopping Bags Sufficient Organic Food this Season Quorn growing in popularity McDonalds Goes For Compost Making Gifts From Tetra Paks Lighting Made From Plastic Bottles
Prefabricated House Made From Paper
2009-01-23 14:00:00 Arts and Entertainment, Buildings, Conservation, Eco Friendly, helping the homeless, living space, natural disasters, recycled-paper Related posts zBoards Green Building Blocks What’s Poppin? Eco Friendly Popcorn Wegman Goes Green, Reduces Packaging The Eco-Friendly Bible for Christians The Complete Apartment in a Box Teaching Kids with Eco-friendly Learning Cards Subscribe Okido for Your Child Recyled Paper Fish Sculpture!
Europe Could Become Wind Powered
2009-01-23 13:00:00 Conservation, Consumerism, electricity, europe, middle east, netherlands society, north sea, OIl, oil and gas, russia, watt hours, Wind Energy Related posts You can build your own Wind Turbine World’s Dirtiest Cities Why Are Some Beaches Left Dirty? Water Powered Pool Lights VegaWatt: From Veggie Oil To Electric Power Using Gas and Glass for Profitable Business UK to get first eco nightclub UK Driving Test ...
Alcatraz Gets A Sun And Wind Powered Boat
2009-01-22 12:00:00 With over 1.4 million visitors every year taking a trip across to Alcatraz Island that works out at a lot of fuel and a huge carbon footprint, luckily Alcatraz Cruises have recently launched their solution to this the problem, the Hornblower Hybrid ferry. This vessel has two wind turbines and a solar array, which generates power ... |
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