Today is World Wetlands Day, as today is the day the Ramsar Convention was signed, which aims to highlight and protect this important provider of life for Nature, such as wetlands.
In Cyprus, apart from our famous Lakes and Lakes, we have a multitude of such natural and artificial places, where water ends up permanently or temporarily, thus creating ecosystems, helping and complementing the valuable process of the earth to provide its ecosystem services. Water and soil create life and that is precisely why today's report is being made.
In recent years, huge efforts have been and are being made to protect, enhance and restore these places, thus wanting to support this important provider of life.
The mud in the Lakes must remain as undisturbed as possible so that it can produce the food that wading animals consume, which in turn serves the food chain in wildlife, and contributes to the viability and sustainability of the planet. At the same time, our efforts are intensifying to create natural predators to avoid dealing with species that are a nuisance to humans through chemical formulations that contaminate and harm these natural processes.
Activities such as illegal quarrying, illegal garbage dumping, poaching, driving vehicles off the roads, complete all that we should prevent, all that we should find ourselves ready to condemn and exclude in order to contribute to the conditions of well-being that we owe first to ourselves.
The wounds we needlessly inflict on Wetlands are costs that each of us bears through no fault of our own. European Directives for the protection of these important sites are not issued abusively or recklessly, and certainly the laws of the Republic of Cyprus are more than enough and should not only be respected but also enforced.
At the same time, the Services should revisit and review existing practices and evaluate the real benefit they return both to Nature and to the taxpaying citizen, who has the right to enjoy these great places in the full scope of this extraordinary offer for recreational, public health, environmental, ethical, ecosystemic, and purely economic reasons.
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