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| News and Recent Press Releases |
| "Small Garbage"
"Small Garbage", the small pieces of personal waste, casually discarded on beaches or directly into the sea have devastating effects on the marine environment. Entanglement and ingestion of "Small Garbage", accounts for the deaths of over 100,000 sea mammals and sea turtles in the world each year!... read more |
| AKAMAS, CYPRUS AND KAZANLI, TURKEY, STILL AWAITING CONSERVATION MEASURES
At the 26th Meeting of the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention at Council of Europe in Strasbourg, on the 27th to the 30th November the cases of the highly endangered green turtles nesting at Akamas in Cyprus and Kazanli in Turkey were discussed. Both of these significant nesting beaches are still awaiting conservation measures to be implemented... read more |
| Welcome the Festive Season with our 2007 Turtle Good Luck Charm
With the festive season just around the corner, 2007 is greeted with a smile by Mother and baby Sea Turtle, captured beautifully by prestigious Greek Jewellers Maramenos & Pateras... read more |
| Zakynthos National Marine Park (ZNMP): AND IT ALL CAME TOPPLING DOWN...
Never before has this country witnessed such unlawful activity and lack of transparency within a Management Agency of a Protected Area, the ZNMP... read more |
| MEDASSET's letter to Director General of EC DG Environment.
Due to the seriously compromised state of conservation in Zakynthos, MEDASSET's letter of October 25th 2006, urges Mr Mogens Peter Carl, Director General of EC DG Environment, to take immediate action to press Greek authorities to comply with EC Directives and the 2002 European Court of Justice ruling... read more |
| Turtle Dives Issue 2, MEDASSET's e-Newsletter,
August 2006. MEDASSET is happy to announce the release of the second edition of TURTLE DIVES. Since May our Zakynthos National Marine Park campaign has escalated to crisis point, with enough illegalities and political games to make your jaw drop! We hope you enjoy reading about our campaigns and other activities in our online e-newsletter... To view it please click here. |
| Zakynthos National Marine Park, Greece: "Anything goes" to avoid a European Court of Justice fine.
An alliance of three environmental organisations- ARCHELON, MEDASSET and WWF (Greece), are condemning the unlawful activities currently degrading the ecological integrity of the Zakynthos National Marine Park (ZNMP)... read more |
| Global Conservation Groups Join Costa Rican
Government in Condemning an IllegalShipment of Caribbean Green Turtles to Europe.
A diverse coalition of international NGOs from Europe, North America and the Caribbean are condemning the UK government for approving what many contend to be an illegal shipment of endangered sea turtles from the Cayman Islands to Sea Life Centres in Europe... read more |
| Turtle Dives, MEDASSET's e-Newsletter,
February 2006. Over the last few weeks we have been bombarded with queries about the situation in Laganas Bay, Zakynthos. As we have a number of other issues to share with you, we have decided to put them all together in one easy-to-access e-newsletter. MEDASSET is happy to announce the launch of TURTLE DIVES. To view it please click here. |
| THE MEDASSET ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION KIT -
NOW AVAILABLE IN ARABIC We are happy to welcome in the New Year with the news that, following the great success of the Greek and English versions of our Environmental Education Kit "The Mediterranean Sea, a Source of Life" in 2003, it has now been adapted, translated and reproduced in Arabic and is ready for free dissemination to schools in countries around the Mediterranean.... read more |
| MEDASSET Activities November 2004 –
November 2005 We are happy to inform you that the Highlights of our Activities for 2004-05 are now available (in pdf format) at: http://www.medasset.org/activities_all.htm... read more |
| Sea Turtles at the Bern Convention (Council
of Europe), 28th November to 1st December 2005 At the 25th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention) in Strasbourg, France, the issue of the critically endangered Mediterranean green turtles nesting at Akamas Peninsula in Cyprus, was again discussed.... read more |
| MEDASSET’s 2005 Assessment Reports
to the Bern Convention (Council of Europe) The following 2005 Update Assessment Reports to the 25th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention), have been published as T-PVS/Files and are now available (in pdf format) at: http://www.medasset.org/pub_db/All_tpvs.asp... read more |
| Zakynthos National Marine Park (ZNMP): Menacing
Multi Million Fine Works Wonders! As the tourist season winds down, beach
protection begins! Backed into a corner, Greece has been forced to clean up its act before the European Commission’s October deadline, or face the European Court of Justice (ECJ)... read more |
| MEDASSET is looking for a volunteer
to participate to our research project "A Rapid Assessment Survey of important
marine turtle and monk seal habitats in the coastal area of Albania", from
October 1st to November 20th, 2005... read
more |
| Royal Approval for Mediterranean Project MEDASSET is honoured to announce a gracious contribution by the Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation towards the production of an Arabic version of the Environmental Educational Kit, "The Mediterranean Sea: A Source of Life" which will be distributed free of charge to schools in Arabic speaking countries bordering the Mediterranean. read more |
| Zakynthos National Marine Park: What Park? Forget the Turtles: Save Greece from a European Court of Justice (ECJ) fine! It is nearly five years since Greece lost the ECJ case on sea turtle protection in Zakynthos. Almost ten months since the then EC Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom sent an official “Reasoned Opinion” to the Greek Government (Final step before reverting to the ECJ). read more |
| World Environment Day for a group of young
“Global Citizens” As part of the celebrations for UNEP’s World Environment Day, the St Catherine’s British Embassy School, Athens, Greece, and MEDASSET held slide shows and talks at the school based on the political barriers to sea turtle conservation in a world of global citizenship, and the need for conflict resolution skills... read more |
| 2nd Mediterranean Sea Turtle Conference: “Talking
Turtles”! The 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Sea Turtles, 4-7 May 2005 in Kemer, Turkey, was supported and largely funded by the Barcelona, Bonn and Bern Conventions. The Turkish Ministry of the Environment and Forestry hosted the event. WWF Turkey helped organize the Conference... read more |
| WWW.EUROTURTLE CONTINUES TO GROW Europe’s first educational website for the conservation and biology of sea turtles, is celebrating with the news of more than 150,700 (2003 – 134,000) visits, an average of 412 (2003 – 369) per day, and over 2,399,000 (2003 – 1,370,000) hits on the website during 2004... read more |
| "Zakynthos Sea Turtle Odyssey -
A Political Ball Game" Dear all, We are happy to inform you that an article “Zakynthos Sea Turtle Odyssey - A Political Ball Game” we have published in the Peer Reviewed “Marine Turtle Newsletter” (USA), that outlines the chronology of events since nesting of loggerhead turtles was first recorded on the island of Zakynthos ,is now available on the Internet at: http://www.medasset.org/pdf/zakynthos_Timeline_MTN.pdf. or at http://www.seaturtle.org/mtn/archives/mtn108/ |
| "Survey on sea turtle nesting activity, South
Lebanon 2004" Dear All, We are happy to inform you that the following report is now available on the Internet at: http://www.medasset.org/pdf/lebanon_report_2004.pdf "Survey on sea turtle nesting activity, South Lebanon 2004" Monica Aureggi, Charbel Rizk, Lily Venizelos...read more |
| PETITION: 17,000 WORLD CITIZENS VOICE
THEIR DISTRESS… With both the nesting period for sea turtles and the tourist season due to begin in Laganas Bay in about 7 weeks, EURONATUR and MEDASSET have jointly delivered their 17,000 signature petition to the Greek Prime Minister...read more |
| Kazanli: Turkish Government Delegation
Lies to Bern Convention MEDASSET has now investigated statements made by the Turkish Delegation (Mr Mustafa Akincioglu, Deputy General Director, Ministry of Environment and Forestry) at the 24th Bern Convention meeting at Council of Europe (Strasbourg/France) in December 2004. read more |
| British Tourists Blamed for Damage to
Turtles' Haven An article appeared in the London "TIMES" of the 7th of February 2005 entitled "British Tourists Blamed for Damage to Turtles' Haven" by Steve Bird and John Carr. read more |
| ZAKYNTHOS NATIONAL MARINE PARK: “NOW
YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON’T”! The Greek government has written to the EC in response to a “Reasoned Opinion” from the EC (Final step before taking a case to the European Court of Justice) that gave 15th December as a reply deadline.read more |
| ZAKYNTHOS SEA TURTLES AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
A Seminar "Protection of Sea Turtles" at the European Parliament (EP) in Brussels on 23rd November 2004 considered the implementation of the European Commission's (EC) Habitats Directive in Greece. read more |
| GUIDING FISHERMEN TO SAVE TURTLES The UNEP Mediterranean Action plan, Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (MAP-RAC/SPA) “Sea Turtle Handling Guide for Fishermen”.. read more |
| GREEK GOVERNMENT ON THE ROPES!
Arising from a Reasoned Opinion from the
European Commission (EC) to the Greek government on the subject of the Sea
Turtles in Zakynthos, the English language “Athens News” published
an interesting article...read
more |
| ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2004 Update Assessment Reports to the 24th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention)have been published as T-PVS/Files...read more . |
| ANNOUNCEMENT: Sea Turtles: An Ecological Guide. Karen Eckert and Dave Gulko have co-authored a new book ... read more |
| ANNOUNCEMENT: ZAKYNTHOS SEA TURTLE SAGA ON BBC2 TV A documentary will be shown on the UK BBC2 channel at 11.30 am on Sunday August 15th, 2004 ... read more |
| OPEN LETTER to Mrs Margot Wallstrom, EC Commissioner
for the Environment Dear Mrs. Wallstrom, REF: ANARCHY REIGNS AT THE ZAKYNTHOS NATIONAL MARINE PARK (ZNMP) IN GREECE As more disturbing news arrives from ZNMP, we are powerless, unable to stop the major ecological disaster that is currently taking place in Laganas Bay, internationally recognised as the main Loggerhead turtle nesting area of the Mediterranean. All of this during the first few weeks of the nesting season ... read more |
| GREEK OLYMPICS AT LOGGERHEADS
WITH SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION. While the staff of the Zakynthos National Marine Park (ZNMP) in Greece enter the 4th week of their withdrawal of labour, having not been paid since August 2003, the Deputy Minister of the Environment, Stavros Kalogiannis, answering a question on the subject in the Greek Parliament on the 20th May 2004, stated that “EC and National programme funds available for the environment are sufficient to cover the financial needs of the ZNMP”. What he didn’t say was that this would depend on Greece paying its 50% share so as to qualify for EC contribution. He said “the lack of money to pay the ZNMP expenses is mainly due to the fact that the Greek Ministry agencies responsible for the processing of the Operational Programme ‘Environment’ (co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, ERDF) functions at an extremely slow pace”... read more |
| In Greece, it’s:
Forget the turtles… Save the Olympics!!! As a withdrawal of labour by the Zakynthos National Marine Park (ZNMP) staff enters it’s second week, they are still owed 10 months salaries. On 2nd May the first 23 charter flights of the season arrived in Zakynthos and sea turtles are massing in Laganas Bay prior to the start of nesting in a few days ….. Total anarchy reigns in the area of the Park with uncontrolled summer furniture blocking the beaches, illegal sand lifting from the dunes, dozens of vehicles driving on the beaches, illegal coastal development, all with the consequent degradation of the nesting area... read more |
| ZAKYNTHOS NATIONAL MARINE PARK
Staff: No pay for 8 months! Although the Greek government continue to announce agreed funding for the Zakynthos National Marine Park, the Management Agency of the Park have revealed that of 200,000 Euros allocated, the government only paid the Park 37,000 Euros in the whole of 2003. As a result the full time staff of the Park have not been paid for the past 8 months, and the 2003 seasonal beach guards have only received 50% of their earnings!... read more |
THE ATHENS ACADEMY PRAISES MEDASSET The Athens Academy at its panegyric Meeting on 30th December 2003, in the presence of His Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr K. Stefanopoulos, bestowed a Natural Sciences Commendation on MEDASSET, the Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles, for its “unstinting work for the turtles of the Mediterranean”... read more |
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