Ioanna Panayiotou, commissioner, environment, Cyprus, called on the public to embrace environmental initiatives such as the clothes recycling programme established by Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends (PASYKAF).

The municipality of Strovolos and the European Commission Representation in Cyprus have launched an information campaign on the reduction of disposable plastic bags.

The success of a 2017 campaign seeing ecological ashtrays being made available at 10 Larnaca beaches has prompted the effort’s continuation this year.

The Bi-communal Technical Committee of Education over the 2017 school year brought together 2,000 pupils and 194 teachers from 80 Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot schools for the Imagine programme.

The department of antiquities, ministry of transport, communications and works announced the completion of this year’s archaeological mission of the University of Leicester at Akrotiri-Dreamer’s Bay, in the Limassol district.

Andrey & Julia Dashin’s Foundation and broker ForexTime (FXTM) has since May sponsored the care of the owls at Pafos Zoo, a total of 11 birds from five different species.