Evros

Four human traffickers, three foreigners and one Greek, were arrested on Saturday in the northern regions of Rhodope and Evros.

Police from the Rhodope and Alexandroupolis departments made the arrests.

Bulgaria has become the EU member state most severely impacted by forest fires this year. According to the European Forest Fire Information System, over 38,000 hectares of land in Bulgaria have been burned so far, more than double the area affected in the previous year.

Greek authorities have issued a fire hazard warning for five regions on Sunday, as high temperatures continued to spark wildfires in several parts of the country.

According to the prediction map published by the Civil Protection Agency, the regions are considered to be at very high risk of wildfires, ranking at Level 4 (orange) out of a maximum of 5.

Re-exhibition of the Archaeological Museum of Samothraki

Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni inaugurated the restored building and the re-exhibition of the Archaeological Museum during her two-day working visit to Samothraki.

Innovative projects by students from three schools in the the farthest-flung regions of Greece - the Avdiron High School of Xanthi, the Fera High School of Evros and the 1st Experimental High School of Samos - are sweeping awards in the most demanding student competitions.

An agreement for the creation of waterdromes in Alexandroupoli and on the island of Samothrace was signed on Tuesday, Ellinika Ydatodromia (Greek Water Airports) has announced.

A fire broke out on Sunday morning in the Soufli area of Evros in northern Greece. 

According to the fire department, the fire is burning in an agricultural and forest area.

Some 26 firefighters with 9 vehicles have bene dispatched to the scene, while three aircraft and one helicopter are assisting from the air. 

Positive signs first emerged in April when experts found that the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus), also known as the Eurasian black vulture, a rare but emblematic species of the Dadia Forest in northeastern Greece, had not abandoned the area after what European Union officials described as the largest fire recorded in the EU up to 2023.

There are no agreed maritime borders at the mouth of the Evros River in northeastern Greece, according to a navigation notice (Navtex) issued by the Izmir Hydrographic Service Station in Turkey in response to a Greek Navtex reserving an area of the estuary, within Greek territorial waters, until June 22 for scientific research by the R/V Alkyon vessel. 

A team of Spanish experts who had visited the Evros region in northeastern Greece that was ravaged by devastating wildfires last summer have submitted an 80-page report to Greek authorities with recommendations to improve prevention capabilities.