UKIP and Lib Dems act to help Save The Cyprus Grass Snake

MEP’s from the UK, representing UKIP and the Liberal Democrats, have pledged active support for the campaign to save the Cyprus Grass Snake from extinction and set up a captive breeding program.   Both political parties will be writing to European Commissioner for the Environment, Janez Potocnik (janez.potocnik [at] ec.europa [dot] eu.) asking him for [...]

Cyprus Greens Invited to Help Save The Cyprus Grass Snake

The conservation team which is working on the Campaign to Save the Cyprus Grass Snake from Extinction is very small. It consists of Snake George and Linda Crossley in Cyprus and the owner of the Cyprus Reptiles web site, John Mason, who is resident in the UK. The ConservationTeam has been so pleased to have the support of [...]

Breakthrough – EU Commission to question the Cyprus Government about the Cyprus Grass Snake

  The EU Commission for the Environment says; “Thank you for this additional document with alarming information about the status of N. natrix cypriaca. As already stated, the Commission is pursuing the infringement case about Paralimni in accordance with applicable procedures. As you also point out the implementation of a captive breeding programme is one [...]

Update – Campaign to Save the Cyprus Grass Snake from Extinction

Cyprus Reptiles has been busy writing to all of the Cyprus MEP’s, Permanent staff from Cyprus on the Council for Europe, The EU Commission for the Environment and all of the Cyprus Deputies about the plight of the Cyprus Grass Snake (CGS). We have been telling them that according to George’s latest field surveys that [...]