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What are Special Protection Areas?

One of the most important issues of concern for the EU is the ongoing degradation of natural habitats and the constant undermining of biodiversity and wildlife populations. To tackle this problem, the EU recognized the need to establish a European network of ecological sensitive areas known as NATURA 2000. The network is established by the 1992 Habitats Directive (92/43/EC) and also includes the Special Protection Areas (SPAs) for birds established under the provisions of the 1979 Birds Directive (79/409/EC).

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Biodiversity 2010 report

Biodiversity: do we have the courage to save it?
Cyprus has much work to do…

Press Release Nicosia 22 May 2010

Today, World Biodiversity Day, with its groundbreaking new report on the state of biodiversity in the EU, BirdLife International denounces the EU’s failure to reach its target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010 and indicates the necessary steps needed to stop the loss of biodiversity and to enhance its recovery in the EU. Cyprus does not compare well with other EU Member States on the biodiversity issue.

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World governments fail to deliver on 2010 biodiversity target

Cyprus also in the “must do better” category

Press Releae Nicosia, 29th April 2010

World leaders have failed to deliver commitments made in 2002 to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and have instead overseen alarming biodiversity declines. These findings are the result of a new paper published in the leading journal Science and represent the first assessment of how the targets made through the 2002 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have not been met.

Biodiversity Tragets for 2020

Cyprus set to support ambitious 2020 biodiversity target, but will the EU Environment Council match this ambition?

BirdLife Cyprus Press Release

Brussels & Nicosia, 15 March 2010 – BirdLife International and its local partner, BirdLife Cyprus, hold high expectations for the meeting of the Environment Council which takes place in Brussels today, as European Environment Ministers get together to discuss the 2020 Biodiversity target. Last January, the European Commission published its communication presenting 4 options for an EU vision and target for halting the loss of biodiversity beyond 2010.

Spring Alive 2010

Help us record the coming of Spring!

BirdLife Cyprus Press Release Nicosia, 26 February 2010

Swallows and other migratory birds returning to Europe from far-off Africa are the traditional heralds of the arrival of spring. BirdLife Cyprus invites everyone to celebrate the end of winter and the return of migratory birds by participating in Europe’s biggest spring birdwatch, called Spring Alive.
Everyone, but especially children all around Europe can record the first arrivals of migratory birds by participating in Spring Alive campaign.

Autumn Trapping 2009

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE TRAPPING FRONT

BirdLife Cyprus Press Release December 2009

AUTUMN 2009 was a disastrous season for bird trapping, with mist net use up by 35% compared to the autumn of 2008, limestick use also on the rise and restaurants widely flouting the law by serving ambelopoulia “delicacies”. On the eve of 2010, the international year of biodiversity, the latest findings from BirdLife’s ongoing field monitoring show that Cyprus is now seriously loosing ground in the battle against bird trapping, an illegal and indiscriminate practice that threatens many bird species of conservation concern, and migrants especially.