A three-day conference on conservation and management is organized from today by the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment in Drusea.
The conference aims to present and disseminate international experiences, good practices and successful examples of integrated management of protected areas and discuss their implementation in Cyprus and in particular in the case of the Akamas Peninsula.
The conference will bring together distinguished international experts with broad, practical and multi-dimensional experience in the governance and management of protected areas.
The conference will discuss issues such as the development of sustainable tourism around protected areas, the implementation of sustainable development models at local and national level with a focus on protected areas, the implementation of investments in protected areas in order to create environmental, economic and social benefits, the development of sustainable tourism in protected areas, the implementation of sustainable development models in protected areas, and the implementation of sustainable tourism in protected areas.
The Conference is an action of the project "Management of the Natura 2000 Network Area - Akamas Peninsula", which is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund for the programming period 2014-2020, under the Operational Programme "Competitiveness & Sustainable Development" of the Structural Funds of the European Union.
The Conference, according to the organizers, is an opportunity to enrich the knowledge of all stakeholders directly or indirectly involved in the management of Akamas and protected areas in general in Cyprus, on the integrated and multidimensional management of these valuable areas, to discuss the challenges we face as a state and the ways in which these can be transformed into opportunities, and through successful examples in other areas, to transfer the experience on the ways in which the management of valuable protected areas in Cyprus can be improved.
