The forest of Dadia lies 65 km north of Alexandroupolis, in the prefecture of Evros, in Thrace. Of the 38 species of diurnal raptors occurring in Europe, 19 nest in the area and some 10 more overwinter or pass through …

Acheloos is the second longest river flowing within Greece, spanning 220 kilometres from its sources among the mountaintops of the southern Pindos range to its mouth in the Ionian Sea, where it creates the huge complex of the Mesolongi wetlands. …

For almost 10,000 years, the people on the intriguing island of Milos have been close to Nature. They have been devastated by earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves, poisonous gas, subsidence, sea level rise and famines induced by the impacting of comets …

This book, second in our series “Unknown Greek Nature”, presents Lake Kerkini, possibly the most important wetland of our country today. It took more than four years of frequent visits to the wetland, during all seasons, for Nikos Petrou to …

FROM THE THIRD EDITION: THREE YEARS LATER …… While writing these lines I struggle to accept that three whole years have passed since my book was first published, in May 1994. It seems as if it were only months ago …