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On October 4, 2003, an international assembly of Tilos residents, scientists, representatives of the Local Authority, University and Research Institutes and Organizations, as well as global environmental organizations met in the Livadia community of Tilos to create the “Tilos Park,” a non-profit association. On July 5, 2004, the Greek Court in Rhodes issued a judicial decree officially establishing the Tilos Park association.

As described in its bylaws, the aims of the association are:

1. the maintenance and protection of all components and values of the natural environment in the land and marine region of the island cluster of Tilos.
2. the maintenance and protection of all components and values of the cultural environment of the island cluster of Tilos.
3. the maintenance and protection of all components and values of the landscape of the island cluster of Tilos.
4. the realization of all necessary action by the management for the maintenance and protection of the natural and cultural environment and the landscape of the island cluster of Tilos.
5. the briefing, informing, sensitization and activation of residents, collective institutions, visitors and more generally the users of the land and marine region of the island cluster of Tilos.
6. the scientific research and study of the natural and cultural environment of the island cluster of Tilos.
7. the identification and promotion of the values and natural wealth in the land and marine region of the island cluster of Tilos for conservation.
8. the attraction of visitors and the growth of tourism in a form that is compatible with the conservation and protection of the natural and cultural environment of the island cluster of Tilos.
9. the environmental briefing and education of the users of the land and marine region of island cluster of Tilos.
10. the growth of volunteerism for the protection of the natural and cultural environment of the island cluster of Tilos.
11. the achievement of sustainable development and balanced economic growth along with the maintenance of social cohesion within the framework of the protection of the environment in the island cluster of Tilos.
12. the creation of the educational organization entitled " Aegean Centre for Environmental Studies" for the education in management of protected regions and more generally for the benefit of knowledge concerning the protection of the environment.
13. the creation of a centre of protection of rural/farm animals and plants of the Aegean that are threatened with extinction.
14. the support of farmers and livestock-breeders who practice organic production and contribute to the environmental protection and/or expansion of the protected region in the island cluster of Tilos.
15. the promotion of the establishment of officially protected areas within the island cluster of Tilos by the Greek state and the compliance with all rules, regulations and laws promulgated in support thereof.
16. the management of Tilos’ protected areas.

The Tilos Park Logo

In honor of the twelve year effort by the Tilos Municipality and its residents to protect their natural heritage, the Tilos Park Association decided to use the image of a Tillian partridge as its logo. The Tilos Park association logo is a creation and offer of George Sfikas, painter, writer and President of the Greek Society for the Protection of Nature.

Tilos Park Founding Members

The City of Tilos, the Athens University Zoological Museum, the Mediterranean Garden Society, the World Commission on Protected Areas, Dr. Anastasios Aliferis, Panayiotis Vouros, Dr. Enrico Cavina, Michael Davies, Dr. Aimilia Drouga, Martinos Gaetlich, Dr. Susan Hannon, Nikolaos Theodorides, Anna Theodoridou, Miltiades Kalamaras, Athanasios Karteros, Dr. Anastasia Komninou, Ioannis Koronaios, Michael Kypreos, Eleftherios Levantis, Maria Thessalou Legaki, Spiros Logothetis, Eugenia Loupaki, Christina Mega, Dr. Candice Mentzelopoulou, Konstantinos Mentzelopoulos, Demetri Michalos, Paris Papatheodorou, Faidon Papatheodorou, George Pastrikos, Elena Pissa, Konstantinos Sakelaris, Dr. Andreas Sioulas, Dr. Nikolaos Symeonides, George Sfikas and Ilias Christofis.

Tilos


Tilos is an Aegean island with nineteen beaches, twelve mountains, seven medieval castles, a Byzantine monastery and two hundred churches, a cave full of natural discoveries, a village that is a declared cultural monument, a hundred bird species, hundreds of wild flowers and herbs, and five hundred residents.

Sixteen different types of ecologically balanced habitats, or biotopes, including four hundred types of plants and over a hundred bird species comprise the island’s remarkable natural world. Every visitor to Tilos becomes an honorary bird watcher as the beauty and richness of the island’s aviary world is impossible to miss. Eagles, falcons and other birds of prey together with shags, cormorants, seagulls, rollers, bee-eaters, golden orioles, jays, doves, owls, nightingales, swallows, sparrows and herons, just to name a few, fill the island’s skies. The island has also become an Islander Partridge haven thanks to the self imposed hunting ban which was inaugurated in 1987.

We Need Your Help

Please, consider becoming a Member of the Tilos Park Association. Your membership will add strength to our voice in trying to achieve the aims of our Association and support our efforts in saving from extinction the endangered bird species that have made Tilos their home. For membership information please send an e-mail with your name and e-mail address to: [email protected] Thank you for your consideration.

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