Biodiversity & Natural Resources

The milestones of 2024 and the challenges of 2025

Interview of Ioli Christopoulou on NAFTEMPORIKI TV.

SAvE Whales in progress: Snapshots from the first fieldwork

The SAvE Whales partners created the project’s first short documentary.

Nature under attack: Bern Convention weakens wolf protection

The Standing Committee of the Bern Convention voted to lower the protection status of wolves, a decision widely criticized by conservation experts and environmental organizations.

The priorities for the sustainable development of Natura 2000 sites

Ioli Christopoulou participated in a panel at the 4th OT Forum where the work of NECCA and protected areas in Greece were discussed.

Students learn about the Interreg Artemis programme

Members of the Green Tank team presented the project for the restoration of the Posidonia meadows in the Mediterranean.

Life MareNatura: Participation in the consultation on Special Environmental Study 8c South Aegean – Dodecanese (parts)

The LIFE MareNatura project partners and the project’s expert policy partner, The Green Tank, submitted their views to the consultation on the Special Environmental Study “EPM 8c: Natura 2000 Areas of the Regional Units of South Aegean – Dodecanese (parts)".

EU decision to downgrade wolf protection status puts a protected species in the “crosshairs”

Announcement by 20 Greek Environmental Organizations on the vote in favor of the Commission's proposal to reduce the protection status of the wolf.

Over 300 civil society groups urge EU to strengthen wolf protection, not weaken it

More than 300 civil society groups call on the EU to strengthen, not undermine, efforts to live with wolves.

SAvE Whales on SKAI’s Eco News

Ioli Christopoulou discussed the innovative system to prevent sperm whale collisions with ships in the Kythera Strait.

About the ministerial decision on the protection of Aoos river

Ioli Christopoulou explained the importance of the recent ministerial decision defining the protection conditions for the part of the Aoos River designated as a Protected Landscape and Protected Natural Formation in November 2023.