Blog Artikel 21 · 03. Dezember 2021
This Google Earth video shows the development of the planned Akamas National Park from its creation to the current state of planning. Not much remains of the original idea of a national park. With each new planning step of the Environment Department, the Akamas EU Natura 2000 protected area is reduced in size and the separated areas are released for commercial use.
Blog Artikel 21 · 09. Oktober 2021
No, they don't learn anything.... The President of the Cyprus Federation for Hunting, Mr. Antonis Kakoullis, can tell as much as he wants about the law-abiding execution of hunting in Cyprus by its members and to praise in hollow words the mission of his hunting association. The reality can be seen again on a Wednesday, 22.09.2021, when right next to our houses in Pegeia - Agios Georgios, a shot bee-eater is found, which ultimately fell victim to the shot pellets of a law-abiding hunter.
Blog Artikel 21 · 08. Mai 2021
The Corona Pandemic has severely restricted us birdwatchers and photographers in recent months during the spring bird migration. Luckily, the migratory birds have returned to my waterpoint in the fruit garden around the fig tree. So I was able to welcome a whole range of different types and capture them in the picture and video. I was particularly impressed by the short visit of the wendehals at the fig tree, and in addition, a bluethroat was staying in the area of the nightingale for several...
Videos · 16. Januar 2021
during the Corona Lockdowns you do not have many possibilities to observe the migratory birds at their usual passage points. In recent weeks, I have been more concerned with the "aliens" so named by many, i.e. the African giant worshippers, who in all colours we have abundantly in our garden on the flowering plants and in the butterfly bush.
Videos · 04. Januar 2021
The EU project "LIFE with Vultures", which is managed by BirdLife Cyprus and the Game and Fauna Service, is primarily designed to protect this bird species, which is at home in Cyprus. The griffon vulture population in Cyprus urgently needs this protection, as birds repeatedly decimate the group through poisoned food and also through shootings. 2020 I was invited to observe a nest with young bird and to document this breeding with photo and video. At the end of August 2020, the young griffon...