This Grant project was completed in 2019. We continue to showcase this project’s outcomes on our website because we are proud of the impact it has made and continues to have. While this grant project has been archived, we think you might be interested to read on…. The challenge The challenge here was to respond to…
ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece was founded in 1983 (non-profit). Its primary objective is to protect sea turtles and their habitats in Greece through monitoring and research, developing and implementing management plans, habitat restoration, raising public awareness and rehabilitating sick and injured sea turtles. Archelon receives a large number of stranded, injured sea…
Environmental and Social pressures due to climate change, mass tourism, mass tourism, and frequent wildfires in the islands of the Aegean Sea during the summer months, are the main challenges the Cyclades are facing. The problem is further intensified in Syros, an island that serves as a central transportation hub for the Aegean. The CPF…
Great news! The nationwide expert NGO Archelon will travel to the Cyclades to provide the local Naxos Association for the Wildlife Protection with the necessary capacity and tools in order to maintain and increase the respective populations and to provide biological data from which we can have a better understanding of the turtles’ ecology and population status in the years to…
