{"id":5072,"date":"2025-03-15T11:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T09:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:33:11","slug":"our-response-to-the-paphos-rally-was-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/our-response-to-the-paphos-rally-was-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"Our response to the Paphos Rally was heard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Our foundation\u2019s efforts to halt the rally in the Paphos Forest have paid off. After demanding the immediate cancellation of the event in this sensitive area through a press release and public statements, the &#8220;Aphrodite Rally 2025&#8221; was ultimately held on routes outside the Paphos Forest and the Natura 2000 network.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 14, we emphasized that hosting a high-speed car race (rally) in the Paphos State Forest, within the Natura 2000 Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and Special Protection Area (SPA), constituted a clear violation of European Union directives and Cyprus\u2019 national legislation on nature conservation and biodiversity protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same day, Minister of Environment Maria Panayiotou announced in a public statement that the rally would not take place within the Paphos Forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">\u03a3\u03b5 \u03cc\u03c4\u03b9 \u03b1\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03ac \u03c4\u03bf Venus Rally 2025 \u03b5\u03bd\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u03c1\u03ce\u03c3\u03b1\u03bc\u03b5 \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03a4\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03c1\u03c4\u03b7 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c1\u03b3\u03b1\u03bd\u03c9\u03c4\u03ad\u03c2 \u03cc\u03c4\u03b9 \u03b4\u03b5\u03bd \u03bc\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03bf\u03cd\u03bd \u03bd\u03b1 \u03ba\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03bd \u03c4\u03ad\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b5\u03ba\u03b4\u03b7\u03bb\u03ce\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c3\u03b5 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c7\u03ad\u03c2 Natura \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b5\u03b9\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ac \u03c3\u03b5 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03af\u03bf\u03b4\u03bf \u03b1\u03bd\u03b1\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03c9\u03b3\u03ae\u03c2. \u0397 \u03b8\u03ad\u03c3\u03b7 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03a5\u03c0\u03bf\u03c5\u03c1\u03b3\u03b5\u03af\u03bf\u03c5 \u03cc\u03c0\u03c9\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03a4\u03bc\u03ae\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u0394\u03b1\u03c3\u03ce\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03a5\u03c0\u03b7\u03c1\u03b5\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 \u0398\u03ae\u03c1\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b5\u03af\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03b2\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03bd \u03b5\u03bd\u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03ba\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ad\u03c2\u2026<\/p>&mdash; maria panayiotou (@riapan82) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/riapan82\/status\/1900588644215529651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our foundation\u2019s efforts to halt the rally in the Paphos Forest have paid off. After&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}