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Noble Announces Natural-Gas Discovery Off Coast of Cyprus ? Businessweek
2011-12-29 22:59:00
“The gas discovery in the exclusive economic zone of our country creates great prospects for Cyprus and its people, which we shall seriously, prudently and collectively exploit to serve public interest,” Cypriot President Demetris Christofias said at a press conference in Nicosia today. “Cyprus is coming into Europe’s energy map with prospects of substantially contributing ...
Easy Mistakes to Make When Buying Cyprus Property for Sale
2011-11-17 10:21:00
You cant go wrong when choosing to buy Cyprus property for sale, because this Mediterranean island is one of the most beautiful places in the world to own a holiday home.
Open Season in Cyprus
2011-08-22 15:35:00
In case you missed it yesterday: Hunters expect a spree on first day – Cyprus Mail — UP TO 20,000 hunters will take to the fields for the opening of the turtledove, woodpigeon and quail shooting season today, which is set to be the island?s largest to date thanks to increasing game bird population and ...
Sea Turtle Hatchery: 33 years at Lara Beach in Cyprus
2011-08-17 14:40:00
In the last 33 years some amazing work has been taking place at the Akamas Reserve and along the beaches of Cyprus where the Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) and the Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) create their nests. Tagged: Cyprus, sea turtles, video
Spring 2011 Bird Trapping in Cyprus
2011-07-01 17:25:00
On the heals of CABS’ attention-grabbing Spring Camp in Cyprus video, BirdLife Cyprus has its sober and scientific assessment of Spring 2011 trapping. Besides the fact that the BirdLife Cyprus report is more thorough (owing to greater amount of time put into it), BirdLife’s also focuses more on the mist netting operations which are the ...
CABS Spring Camp in Cyprus
2011-06-26 11:02:00
CABS has a new 10-minute video out, now with English subtitles, that was shown on the German station Stern TV: ‘Dirty business: How millions of song birds end up as table delicacies.’ Tagged: Ambelopoulia, Cyprus, limesticks, poaching, trapping
Birding Cyprus? Sewage Pools
2011-06-24 23:18:00
My latest beat-writer post is up at 10,000 Birds: Birding Cyprus’ Sewage Pools: Tagged: Cyprus
Lots of news from BirdLife Cyprus
2011-05-26 14:44:00
Long-eared owls breeding at the Strakka BirdLife office once again This May, anyone happening to be around the BirdLife Cyprus office in Strakka after dark has been treated to the unusual and weird calls and shrieks of the resident family of Long-eared owls (Asio otus). Regular breeders in the groves around the office, a pair ...
In Flight: BirdLife Cyprus April Newsletter
2011-05-10 18:02:00
FEATURE ARTICLE: Thousands of records amassed in 2011 BirdLife Cyprus Bird Race — Close to 10,000 birds, of just over 150 species was the impressive count from BirdLife Cyprus?s annual Bird Race event, held across the island on April 2nd. The winning team managed to chalk up a staggering 119 bird species in 24 hours! ...
Migrant Warblers in Cyprus
2011-04-29 19:05:00
My latest beat writer post for 10,000 Birds is up: Migrant Warblers in Cyprus Barred Warbler ????????? Sylvia risoria Credit: Jane Stylianou / Cyprus Birding Tours Details: Taken 22-April-2011 at Cape Greco, Cyprus
Cyprus forests and avian inhabitants
2011-04-15 19:53:00
My latest beat writer post is up on 10,000 Birds: Cyprus forests and avian inhabitants Tagged: birds of Cyprus, forests, habitats
The 2011 Cyprus Bird Race
2011-04-04 23:16:00
My latest beat writer post is up at 10,000 Birds, a summary of our outing at the 2nd annual Cyprus Bird Race: The 2011 Cyprus Bird Race Tagged: Birding, birds of Cyprus
In Flight: BirdLife Cyprus March Newsletter
2011-03-30 19:37:00
FEATURE: Our Avian Forest Gems! Cyprus, although only 16% of its land mass is covered with forest, hosts more than 34 species of forest birds, 15 all-year residents, eight migratory breeders and 11 winter visitors. All our six endemics have exclusive or partial populations living in forest habitats ? exclusive being … read more Subscribe ...
2nd Annual Cyprus Bird Race
2011-03-15 22:06:00
BirdLife Cyprus is getting ready for its second annual Bird Race on April 2nd. Last year’s Bird Race involved 6 teams who saw 154 species over 24 hours, raising money for a Tern raft at Larnaka Sewage Works Pools, in readiness for breeding Terns to use during spring of 2011. And as the organization’s online ...
Paphos Forest Management Plan
2011-03-14 08:21:00
BirdLife Cyprus has offered comments for the government’s developing Paphos Forest Management Plan, relating to general provisions in a management plan, conservation actions, the threats facing the forest, the monitoring plans for the Bonelli?s Eagle and the passerines, and the Moufflon. Note well that the Paphos forest is a Natura 2000 area, an IBA, a ...
BirdLife Cyprus? position on the Paphos Wind Farm
2011-02-28 07:15:00
This is worth posting in it’s entirety, from BirdLife Cyprus: The wind farm at Oreites (Paphos) was constructed without a proper Appropriate Assessment of its impacts on birds, and the consequences of its operation are expected to have a negative impact on birds unless compensation measures are immediately employed. BirdLife Cyprus recently submitted its position ...
Ambelopoulia raid in Limassol
2011-02-19 15:49:00
Via the Cyprus Mail: AROUND 1,000 dead blackcaps (ambelopoulia) and hundreds of song thrushes were discovered in four restaurants in various areas of Limassol yesterday, during a raid conducted by the Game Fund and the anti-poaching unit of the Rapid Reaction Unit (MMAD). The two hour raid also netted other birds such as partridges. The ...
Corvid Shootings in Cyprus
2011-02-18 20:25:00
My latest beat writer post is up at 10,000 Birds: Corvid Shootings in Cyprus A snippet: While in recent weeks I?ve Britain has a bit of a controversy over the Songbird Survival proposal, Cyprus too has had an issue with Corvid shooting. A couple years ago in fact, I?d done some research on this and ...
Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus
2011-02-04 16:21:00
My latest beat writer post is up at 10,000 Birds: Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tagged: Ambelopoulia, animal rights
In Flight: BirdLife Cyprus January Newsletter
2011-01-27 14:03:00
FEATURE: BirdLife Cyprus Midwinter Waterbird Census January 2011 BirdLife Cyprus? Midwinter Waterbird Census took place during 22nd-23rd January 2011. Its purpose is to monitor the migratory and resident waterbird populations of all major wetlands internationally and use the results for important conservation work such as designation of Ramsar sites and BirdLife International Important Bird Areas ...
Monthly Butterfly Sightings for 2010
2011-01-24 09:58:00
UPDATE from earlier this month: The organizers of the Butterfly Recording Scheme for Cyprus (CBRC) have finalized a neat summary table for Monthly sightings of 2010. In total, some 49 species were recorded in Cyprus in 2010, including 3 endemic species and 2 endemic subspecies of butterflies. Data on 4 rare or recently extinct species ...
Winter Visitors in Cyprus
2011-01-21 18:11:00
My latest beat-writer post is up at 10,000 Birds: Winter Visitors in Cyprus
Vultures in Trouble in Cyprus too
2011-01-07 16:00:00
My latest beat-writer post is up at 10,000 Birds: Vultures in Trouble in Cyprus too
The Final BirdLife Cyprus Trapping Report for 2010 is here
2010-12-15 01:00:00
The report is out: Final Trapping Report Autumn 2010 from BirdLife Cyprus Summary: BirdLife Cyprus?s monitoring of illegal bird trapping activities continued into the 9th year with data gathered systematically in the field (31st August ? 8th November 2010) by a trained team of surveyors. All evidence of trapping was passed to the relevant enforcement ...
Birding the Divided Land
2010-12-10 21:10:00
My latest beat-writer post is up at 10,000 Birds: Birding the Divided Land Tagged: Cyprus
A Tale of Two Warblers
2010-11-28 09:34:00
My latest beat-writer post is up at 10,000 Birds: A Tale of Two Warblers Cyprus? attractiveness to traveling birders is largely a result of its endemic species ? the Cyprus Warbler (Sylvia melanothorax) and the Cyprus Wheatear (Oenanthe cypriaca). The whole of their populations breed only in Cyprus every year. Happily, they?re not difficult to ...
Ambelopoulia: A problem for Europe
2010-11-12 22:04:00
My latest beat-writer post is up at 10,000 Birds: Why Ambelopoulia is a problem for Europe Tagged: Ambelopoulia, Cyprus
?Hunting the hunters?
2010-11-07 12:17:00
In the Cyprus Mail: Hunting the hunters — THEY say ?the early bird catches the worm? but what they don?t tell you is how early you have to be up to catch the bird. And, as I discovered last Saturday, you have to be up even earlier to catch the bird-hunter. This was the first ...
Cyprus Grass Snake
2010-10-25 08:31:00
Reported by early taxonomists to be common in Cyprus, the endemic subspecies Cyprus Grass Snake (Natrix natrix cypriaca) was thought to have been driven extinct by 1960. Only in 1992 were a small number rediscovered, localized to a small number of streams and dams where its main food source – frogs – are also found. ...
Petition Against Songbird Trapping in Cyprus
2010-09-29 15:21:00
CABS has a petition up, Protest against Poaching on Cyprus, directed towards the Ministers of Agriculture and the Environment (Dimitris Eliades), the Interior (Neoklis Sylikiotis) and (Justice) (Loukas Louka). If figure that most people who follow this blog will be interested reading the petition and signing it. The petition (in English further down): ????????? ?. ...
Cyprus Hunters? Federation discusses environmental policy
2010-09-29 11:27:00
This is about the most encouraging thing I’ve ever seen about conservation in Cyprus. Essentially, this news article describes how representatives of the Cyprus Federation for Hunting and Wildlife Conservation are, for the first time to my knowledge, taking an interest in conservation. I’ve mentioned how hunters in Mediterranean countries were lacking in this attitude, ...
BirdLife Cyprus and Tourism
2010-09-25 13:13:00
BirdLife Cyprus met with authorities of the Cyprus Tourism Organization earlier this month, stressing concerns about bird trapping and tourism similar to the views that I had expressed a couple weeks ago. And indeed, people that are both knowledgeable about birds and aware of Cyprus’ history on wildlife conservation know that Cyprus is not a ...
On the call for a Tourism from Biodiversity in Cyprus
2010-09-10 09:22:00
In the micro-blogging world of Twitter, I’ve been expressing some views that don’t appear to be completely understood by the people responding to me, from what I can see. So let me explain for a bit what I’ve been trying to express. First though, the background… The Call for a Tourism from Biodiversity: Biodiversity is ...
Differences in Attitudes
2010-09-01 08:24:00
I’m not sure how many Europeans have heard of it, but Field & Stream is a very popular hunting and fishing magazine in the U.S. It is striking when compared to its European counterparts, because ever since its founding in 1895, Field & Stream has been just as much about conservation of the outdoors as ...
Walking Dead ? Ravens in Cyprus
2010-08-09 11:12:00
There is succinct species description and status from the Summer 2010 edition of BirdLife Cyprus Magazine that I wish more people could see: The Raven is a common species in Europe and once very common in Cyprus but today its population numbers only around 4 pairs. This decline was caused mainly by the use of ...
Cyprus? Lost Forests
2010-06-06 15:04:00
While today forests fill 175,404 hectares or 19% of the area of Cyprus mostly in the mountains of the Paphos district in the western side of the island, historians and archaeologists suggest that Cyprus was once quite different. Cyprus was once characterized as ?Dasoessa,? meaning a place full of forests, and as ?a golden-green leaf ...
I wonder what would happen if Israel sends "aid" to Cyprus
2010-06-04 19:52:00
Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974. I wonder what would happen if non-occupied Cyprus sent rockets into the occupied side. What if a peace flotilla tried to get on that side? Powered by b2evolution.
EU Failing to Protect Birds
2010-05-22 15:24:00
In a report published today by the RSPB and BirdLife International titled ?2010-Turning or Breaking Point for Europe?s Wildlife??, conservationists summarized the EU progress towards the 2010 biodiversity target as measured by 18 criteria spanning 10 major groups of indicators. Of 27 EU countries, only four nations “adequately” addressed 6 or more of the 18 ...
History of Griffon Vultures in Cyprus
2010-05-10 10:38:00
Kypros.org: Management and Conservation of the Griffon Vulture: The population of Griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) in Cyprus is decreasing from year to year. In some traditional nesting sites no more birds are seen. The black vulture Aegypius monachus is no longer breeds in Cyprus. This decrease was also observed in other European countries (Glutz et ...
Cyprus MP speaks out for raping biodiversity
2010-05-07 11:41:00
CYPRUS MAIL – Europe ?got it wrong? on bird law: DISY deputy for Famagusta Soteris Sampson has slammed the law that bans bird trapping with limesticks, and criticised the Cypriot authorities for allowing campaigners to remove illegal bird trapping equipment. Furthermore, he said, the law was the product of the European Union, but it is ...
Trip Report ? 6 May 2010
2010-05-07 11:21:00
This is a trip report for our Cyprus Birding Tours. Target species: Primarily the Cyprus endemic species/subspecies We made a really good attempt to see the Scops Owl but they were elusive although we heard a couple at Troodos. We also got Barn Owl which I had told [our guest] was unlikely and saw at ...
Ambelopoulia in Turkish-Occupied Cyprus
2010-05-06 09:55:00
This is part of the series of posts Poaching in Cyprus FAQ Is there any monitoring in the Turkish-occupied areas of northern Cyprus? With all the talk over ambelopoulia in the Greek side of Cyprus, we might forget that there is bird poaching in the north or Turkish-occupied side of Cyprus too. Sadly and to ...
Isreal and Egypt Welcome Windstar Cruises
2010-05-03 18:36:00
Windstar Cruises is introducing new cruises to Egypt and Israel in 2011, on one of its three motorized sailing yachts. The two Holy Land itineraries on the 148-passenger Wind Star include optional excursions to Cairo and pre- and post-cruise programs in Jerusalem. These 10-day sailings begin  October 15 2010 from Piraeus (Athens) ...Travel Lady Cruises, always providing you with TLC!Isreal and Egypt Welcome Windstar Cruises
Violence and Crime in Cyprus
2010-05-03 10:17:00
Famagusta Gazette clipping: Several members of the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) have been attacked in the Ayios Mamas area of Paralimni (h/t The Bald Ibis) — A team of international bird conservationists from the German-based Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS), who had just dismantled 30 limesticks and freed protected migrant species have been savagely ...
Spring Migration in Cyprus
2010-04-06 09:51:00
While I’m on hiatus from birding to help my wife look after our now 2-week-old daughter, go check out Spyros’ blog post at Birdwatching in Greece: Spring bird trip to Cyprus: where anything may stop by!. From reports, this has been an amazing Spring for birders here in Cyprus… Saker Falcon, Cream-colored Coursers, Dotterels, Caspian ...
Butterflies of Cyprus
2010-03-17 21:23:00
I’d heard something about it, but I was recently reminded about this website for the Butterflies of Cyprus. The informational resources are great if you’re the slightest bit interested in butterfly-watching. It offers (1) an accurate, peer-reviewed Cyprus butterfly species list; (2) notes on distinguishing features on species; and (3) great photos of a nice ...
Bird Photos from Cyprus
2010-03-11 13:13:00
Birds are wonderful things, and photos of birds are almost as good. Better, perhaps, because they give one a clearer and sharper sight than you can often get with the naked eye, perfectly preserved. I just finally came across a Flickr group pool for Cyprus Birding where photographers can contribute some of their image collections. ...
Cyprus Bird Tours
2010-02-08 15:17:00
Together with Jane Stylianou, I’d like to announce that we’re now offering guided birding tours in the Republic of Cyprus. See below for details… Cyprus Birding Guides We are a pair of keen birders in Cyprus, who freelance as birdwatching tour guides. We are both experienced birders, and one or both of us goes out almost ...
Bats of Cyprus
2010-01-30 12:21:00
There’s an interesting and informative post on some of Cyprus’ other winged residents on Mahallas: The Bats of Cyprus: Despite the current protected status of bats in Cyprus, as in the whole of the EU, the old misconceptions and attitudes toward them are still held strongly by some Cypriots. Bats are being shot for fun, their ...
Cypriot Poaching in the News
2010-01-04 22:24:00
This crime has gotten a reasonable amount of media attention in the English-speaking media, but it is largely ignored among Greek-speaking media outlets. So it’s refreshing to see it covered on the Cypriot TV station Sigma: ???????? ???? 35% ? ????? ??????? ??? ????????? ??????? (reposted below the fold) ???????? ??? ? ????? ????????, ??? ?????? ???????? ??????????, ...
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