Akrotırı Turtlewatchan overvıew and great news!

The enthusıastıc volunteers to run Akrotırı Turtlewatch have just announced theır fıgures for last years season -55nests wıth more than 1.800 hatchlings returned safely back to the sea.

On the down side there were 24 dead turtles washed up around the Akrotiri peninsula which is not  news as more of them were breedıng females.

A couple of weeks ago, volunteers Bonnie and Tam Toward, were out for a walk when they came across an adult female loggerhead  turtle – she had been washed  up alive on cove 4, but had serious head injuries. She has been cared for by the Episkopi  Garrison vet and the Evdhimou Vet john Pieroua.

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The Troodos , scene of Geological History

Just as legend says the goddess Aphrodite rose from the sea-so Cyprus is also a child of the ocean .  A unique witness to the history of the earth is the Troodos Mountain range.  It rose from the waters some 25 million years ago during the continental drift which separated Eurasia form Africa.  With it is  geological history, the Troodos is a unique illustrative example of the earth’s  genesis.

Unlike other sites, there are no major faults here. So geologists form all the world study the clearly visible stratum sequence  of the earth’s oceanic  crust, drawing  conclusions about the development and movement of seas and continents.

Today  Troodos is considered to be the best preserved and  the most systematically studied ophiolite

Complex in the world.

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