{"id":7191,"date":"2026-11-01T15:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2026-11-12T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:30:39","slug":"akamas-three-years-later-serious-challenges-remain-in-protecting-the-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/akamas-three-years-later-serious-challenges-remain-in-protecting-the-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"Akamas: Three Years Later, Serious Challenges Remain in Protecting the Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three years after the start of construction works in Akamas, a new Special Report by the Audit Office of the Republic of Cyprus confirms the serious concerns repeatedly raised by environmental organisations regarding the works carried out in the Akamas National Forest Park.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report highlights significant shortcomings in environmental assessment procedures, deviations from approved environmental conditions and construction plans, as well as failures to properly enforce environmental legislation. It also draws attention to the continued presence of illegal activities and unauthorised interventions within the protected area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terra Cypria stresses the need for the competent authorities to acknowledge mistakes and take responsibility, calling for the full enforcement of environmental legislation, the restoration of environmental damage, and the redesign and reassessment of the projects, with the effective protection of the Akamas Peninsula as the top priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read our full press release<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/el\/%ce%bf%ce%ba%cf%84%cf%8e%ce%b2%cf%81%ce%b9%ce%bf%cf%82-2023-%ce%bf%ce%ba%cf%84%cf%8e%ce%b2%cf%81%ce%b9%ce%bf%cf%82-2026-3-%cf%87%cf%81%cf%8c%ce%bd%ce%b9%ce%b1-%ce%bc%ce%b5%cf%84%ce%ac-%ce%b7-%cf%80\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after the start of construction works in Akamas, a new Special Report by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191","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=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terracypria.org\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}