The increasingly draconian approach to irregular migration betrays the spirit of the 1951 refugee conventionSeventy years ago, the 1951 UN refugee convention established the rights of refugees to seek sanctuary, and the obligations of states to protect…
Tourists rescued from burning Med resorts by flotilla of boats
Six dead from wildfires raging across Turkey, Italy and Greece as temperatures hit 40CHolidaymakers have been evacuated from beaches by rescue boats in Turkey after wildfires threatened hotels in the Aegean resort of Bodrum.Coastguard vessels were join…
Pandemic gives respite to Greek island sea turtles – but returning tourists could wreck it
With a new study suggesting endangered loggerhead turtles reclaimed empty shores to breed during Covid, conservationists fear the return of mass tourismNikoletta Sidiropoulou and her colleagues in the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece (Archelon) …
Athens: Sea, Spontaneity, Serendipity
It has been awhile since I jetted off to another place. So this trip has been a long time coming! It has been since last April (bar the weekend trips to London which don’t count as much…) so the travel hiatus was definitely getting to me. S…