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ARC - ΚΙΒΟΤΟΣ
Education – Wildlife HeritageΕπιμόρφωση – Φυσική κληρονομιά – Άγρια ζωή
Patricia Radnor Kyriacou
www.animalscyprus.org –[email protected]
Our successes
• Dolphinarium closed 1999
• Cyprus is one of the few captive dolphin-free countries
(Permanent government ban on captive dolphin imports)
Another success• Two brown
bears captive for 14 years in Limassol zoo rescued and flown to Hungary
• Free in a Hungarian refuge
Captive animals have no place in modern ecotourism
• Three leopards will travel to Africa in May• Unlicensed zoo (EU Zoos Directive 22/1999) will be
closed down• Europe's first Ecozoo?
Cyprus – an established tourist destination
• Mass tourism – “Sun and Sea”
• Luxury tourism
• Ecotourism/Agrotourism
Ecotourism
• Traditional restored mountain villages (Kalopanayiotis)
• Cyprus villages (Sun and Sea)
Cyprus has many endemic species
Endemic Glaucopsyche paphos (Paphos blue) feeding on endemic Anthemis tricolor
• Turtles (Caretta caretta)• Seals (Monachus monachus)
• Bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) -fruit bats
Wildlife of Cyprus
Cyprus is the only country EU member state to have fruit bats (Megachiroptera)
NETWORKING
• EUROBATS Secretariat International conference in Cyprus May 2009
At an ecotourism village and conference centre on the sea
Government authority (Department of Environment) on board
Maremotu
• Italian sea – kayaking organisation will come to Cyprus
• Travel round the coast
• Fruit bat sea-caves
• Recent sighting of Monachus monachus
• Children involved