Mediterranean SOS

Ten Greek conservation groups on Friday issued a joint statement expressing support for the government's draft bill aimed at overhauling regulations for protected areas of natural beauty but adding that the legislation was not comprehensive enough.

Alonnisos, the island of the Northern Sporades in the central Aegean, is abolishing plastic bags from stores and supermarkets in an effort to go green. The project kicked off on December 1 so as to protect the island’s fragile ecosystem. The initiative is spearheaded by the Mediterranean SOS Network (MedSOS).

The municipality of Alonissos in cooperation with the Mediterranean SOS Network and MOm (Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal)  launced an ambitious program today, entitled Alonissos  without plastic bags’, and became the first island to abolish the use of plastic bags.

During a conference of the Mediterranean SOS Network on the occasion of the completion of the European project LIFE AMMOS “Integrated campaign to reduce smoking litter on the beaches”, the head of the European Delegation Commission in Greece Panos Karvounis stated that “Our country lives from tourism”, while he added that It is imperative to protect our shores with a policy directly related to