Archipelagos Institute environmental education and awareness-raising activities with school groups from all over Greece.
Throughout the winter and spring at Archipelagos Institute, we continue both face-to-face and online environmental education and awareness-raising activities with primary, secondary and high schools from all over Greece. Our goal is, by transferring our experience from field research and the study of Aegean species for 25 years, to contribute to filling the large gap […]
Experiences After Work at Archipelagos
Hi, I’m Ella and I completed a 6-week internship on the terrestrial conservation team. During my time with Archipelagos, I initiated a project monitoring the ferret populations. Beyond my main project, I also had the opportunity to join boat surveys monitoring the marine mammal populations, getting the opportunity to learn and understand their work. I […]
Discovering the Fascinating Marine World of the Aegean Sea – A webinar for young people of all ages!
The Consulate General of Greece in Boston, in collaboration with the Institute of Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Emmanuel College and with the Archipelagos – Institute of Marine Conservation will bring the Aegean Sea to the USA on the 29th of May at 11:00 Boston (EDT)/ 18:00 Athens (EEST). In the webinar you will experience impressive audiovisual material from the biodiversity of […]
Limiting the environmental footprint caused to our seas by our daily habits: Collaboration between the Archipelagos Institute and KORRES
When we talk about protecting the environment and combating pollution, our mind usually goes to causes and causers that are difficult for us as citizens to influence, such as industrial pollution. Frequently do not think about the large environmental footprint caused by our daily consumption habits, i.e. the personal hygiene products, cosmetics and cleaning products […]
Students Take Action
Adapting to the special conditions of the time, the Archipelagos Institute continues an action which has been going on for 24 years, online, during which it offers non-profit lessons and activities of environmental education in schools. The aim was and is to inform and prepare the new inhabitants of the islands about the problems that […]
Online Classes for the Protection of the Aegean for Nursery School Students from Kalymnos island
Out of all the students who have taken part in the environmental education lessons from Archipelagos Institute over the past 22 years, the most interesting and challenging questions are posed from the youngest students – a fact that fills us with hope, but also with great responsibility. What is certain, however, is that having followed […]
Creation of a Guide for Identification of the Aegean Sea Fish Species of the Littoral Zone
Katja Wolff, a Swiss-Greek intern from Paros island, Greece, who during her gap year worked on creating a fish ID guide based on the fish species she had been recording while on her visual-census surveys. For the creation of this guide she used photos she had collected along with some of her very own illustrations […]
Archipelagos Institute in Astypalaia
Early this morning, Naftilos, a research vessel of the Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation, set sail for Astypalaia in the SE Aegean. We were invited to the island by the Municipality of Astypalaia, which we are in close cooperation with on numerous environmental issues, to take part in a very useful environmental meeting organized by […]
Ignorance of Nature: The Greatest Risk for Wildlife Survival
The last established population of Mediterranean Chameleons in Greece (Chameleo chameleon), still survives until today on the island on Samos. In previous decades this species also survived in Chios and Crete, while today we do not know if there are viable populations of the species on these islands. Chameleons, in most parts of the world […]
Creation of a Guide for Identification of the Aegean Sea Fish Species of the Littoral Zone
Katja Wolff, a Swiss-Greek intern, is currently working on making a fish ID guide based on the fish species she has been recording during her visual-census surveys. To create this guide she is using photos she has been collecting as well as her own illustrations to point out the characteristics that differentiate each species. Her […]