ENVIRONMENT
Find out how to see the fabulous flora and fauna of the Pissouri area, including migratory birds, bats, information about the snakes of our area, see the many indigineous orchids and wild flowers. Contact us on the Home Page.
OUR ENVIRONMENT
We support Cans for Kids, a Cyprus children's charity. There are discussions going on about extending recycling schemes and, hopefully, it will not be too long before the growing recycling schemes for paper, glass plastic and batteries in the main towns will be extended to Pissouri.
The Village has an enthusiastic tree planting programme and is aware of the need to protect of our local carob and other indigenous trees (see the current issue of the Green Party’s publication, The Ecologist, which features the disastrous carob felling around Pissouri).
The Village and our local schools are in the forefront of environmental activities in their encouragement of the local children to learn and be directly involved in protecting and nurturing the fabulous environment we have around Pissouri. We hear welcome whispers that the Village are taking steps to protect the Pissouri cliffs west of Pissouri Bay with their spectacular bird and wildlife, and they have applied to the Ministry to designate other areas as Green Areas. Hopefully they will let us know more about all this.
You might also have noticed (the mess around the pools makes it hard to miss) that we have a large and varied Pissouri bat population. Indeed, this is one of the most important bat locations on the island – and Cyprus (and Pissouri) have the only fruit bats in Europe, truly making us of international interest and importance. We are able to pinpoint some of our furry flying friends with bat locators, enlightening us about their secret life amongst us.
Could this beautiful area of Cyprus become an internationally important eco-tourist location? We still have everything any ecological tourist could possibly dream of (except fish in the sea and vultures - lost forever to the intransigence of successive governments over the banning of lanate). Hopefully, we will be able to address the plight of the beautiful native fox, hounded relentlessly and at risk of suffering the same fate as the vultures (and the foxes of Crete, which are already extinct). But Cyprus will no doubt continue its support of the Mediterranean nations’ clean-up of the sea.
Perhaps it will be possible to create an EU eco-tourist location from Limassol to Kouklia, to include the Akrotiri salt lakes, the archaeological site at Curium, the spectacular and at present pristine coastal countryside, the Paramali turtle beach, the Pissouri cliffs with the superb Aphrodite Trail beyond to Kouklia, and the wild and beautiful gorges north of the Pissouri section of the motorway? No doubt the Village Office knows about EU grants for such projects. In the meantime the development of the cliff tops to the east of Pissouri Bay clearly excludes this area from any such utopian project.