Drone footage released on Wednesday by videography team Up Stories, shows a sizable pod of dozens of young, adolescent and adult dolphins swimming off the coast of Theologos in Fthiotida in the Gulf of Evia.
ANIMAL PROTECTION
During the lockdowns of 2020, loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Bay of Laganas on the Ionian island of Zakynthos moved to shallower and warmer waters which were beneficial for their eggs, according to a recent study published in a scientific journal.
The Athens-based wildlife conservation group ANIMA has issued a cry for help as it struggles to cope with a leap in admissions at its first-aid center in the suburb of Kallithea.
An animal rights group on Tuesday called for a judicial investigation into a shipment of two lions and a tiger that was allowed to go through customs in northern Greece, destined for the party island of Mykonos.
A local court on Crete unanimously ruled in favor of the director of an animal shelter in the Chania region, dismissing all charges of profiteering from the placement of animals, mostly dogs, abroad.
Storks, which symbolize the arrival of new life for many cultures, have returned from Africa to their old nests in one of the recognized European Stork Villages, of Poros in the Evros River Delta, in northeastern Greece.
More than 185 million birds migrate through Greece this time of year on their way from Africa to Northern Europe.
Who knows how long he’d been standing in the middle of that Kythera field, with little food and water, in unbearable pain as the small halter bit into his flesh.
Nearly 40 dogs were taken out of deplorable conditions in Iraklio, Crete, on Sunday.
A 5.3-meter Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) that was found dead on the beach at Kremasti on the Aegean island of Rhodes on Monday had ingested a large amount of plastic, the autopsy has shown.
The poisoning of wildlife in Greece and more widely in the Balkans remains common, with the Ornithological Society saying the vulture population in the region has suffered the largest decline.
Municipal authorities will be getting a boost of 5 million euros to help them contain their stray cat and dog populations.
Greece’s Environment and Energy Ministry ordered a temporary stop to
seismic surveys in the northern Ionian amid concerns that the acitivity is responsible for the recent stranding in shallow waters of three Cuvier’s beaked whales on the coast of the island of Corfu.
Eco groups are sounding the alarm over the stranding in shallow waters of three Cuvier’s beaked whales within two days on the coast of the island of Corfu.
A stray rights and rescue organization has filed a lawsuit against the municipal pound of Sparta in the eastern Peloponnese over what it describes as the inhumane treatment of dozens of dogs.
With wolf activity increasing in less remote forest areas in western and central Attica, the Kallisto environmental organization has issued a series of guidelines to minimize the risk of unpleasant encounters, such as some recent incidents involving pet dogs.
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