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Toxic industrial waste pours into the River Asopos. Solid and liquid waste ends
up in Lake Xirolimni in Rhodope. The River Pinios is a receptacle for household
waste. Sand scooping is destroying the Bogdanas stream in Mygdonia and the upper
Axios. Bulldozers are threatening the lagoon of Almyra in the Avdira
municipality. Excavations are proceeding in the Gallikos riverbed. The forest by
the lake of Kastoria is shrinking, as water sports detrimental to the
environment are being developed in Paralimni, Viotia. At the same time, the
bridge over the Halandra seasonal river at Eressos, Lesvos, was wrongly approved
while a fish farm was illegally moved to the wetland of Bourboulithras at Volos.
“The Greek State has made noteworthy progress in the question of restoring
wetlands. Unfortunately, the great majority of our 400 wetlands are suffering
from a lack of preventive measures, resulting in thoughtless and illegal acts
such as land encroachments, badly designed development works, and overuse,” said
Alexandros Gerakis, emeritus professor of ecology at Thessaloniki University and
president of EKBY’s executive board. Three of the 10 Greek wetlands of
international importance (the Evros delta, Lake Kerkini and the Prespes lakes
national park) have been left off the Ramsar Convention’s black list. The
wetland in the worst state is Lake Koroneia, in danger of irreversible
destruction due to the reckless pumping of water and industrial pollution.
Despite the lack of programs to monitor wetland threats, EKBY, one of the
Mediterranean’s four wetland centers, provides practical support to protected
areas such as Vai on Crete, Mount Athos, the Nestos and the lakes of
Heimaditida, and Zazari. ZDROJ: www.ekathimeri.com [http://www.ekathimeri.com]
Toxic industrial waste pours into the River Asopos. Solid and liquid waste ends up in Lake Xirolimni in Rhodope. The River Pinios is a receptacle for household waste. Sand scooping is destroying the Bogdanas stream in Mygdonia and the upper Axios. Bulldozers are threatening the lagoon of Almyra in the Avdira municipality. Excavations are proceeding in the Gallikos riverbed.
The forest by the lake of Kastoria is shrinking, as water sports detrimental to the environment are being developed in Paralimni, Viotia. At the same time, the bridge over the Halandra seasonal river at Eressos, Lesvos, was wrongly approved while a fish farm was illegally moved to the wetland of Bourboulithras at Volos.
“The Greek State has made noteworthy progress in the question of restoring wetlands. Unfortunately, the great majority of our 400 wetlands are suffering from a lack of preventive measures, resulting in thoughtless and illegal acts such as land encroachments, badly designed development works, and overuse,” said Alexandros Gerakis, emeritus professor of ecology at Thessaloniki University and president of EKBY’s executive board.
Three of the 10 Greek wetlands of international importance (the Evros delta, Lake Kerkini and the Prespes lakes national park) have been left off the Ramsar Convention’s black list. The wetland in the worst state is Lake Koroneia, in danger of irreversible destruction due to the reckless pumping of water and industrial pollution. Despite the lack of programs to monitor wetland threats, EKBY, one of the Mediterranean’s four wetland centers, provides practical support to protected areas such as Vai on Crete, Mount Athos, the Nestos and the lakes of Heimaditida, and Zazari.
ZDROJ: www.ekathimeri.com
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