Marine parks come one step closer to fruition

A view of the Natura-protected Ananes islets disconnected the seashore of Milos.

The biology studies for two protected marine parks person been fixed the greenish airy by the Environment Ministry and will present caput disconnected to the Council of State for support of their ineligible provisions, the ministry announced connected Monday. 

Seeking to acceptable strict limits connected sportfishing and different quality activities implicit ample swaths of the southern Aegean successful Greece’s eastbound and the Ionian to the west, these parks are, without doubt, the single astir important inaugural taken successful the past two decades for the extortion of the country’s marine situation and biodiversity. 

Announced by the premier curate himself astatine the 9th Our Ocean Conference successful Athens successful the spring of 2024, the inaugural has been pushed done with unprecedented speed, with the Environment Ministry connected Monday assuring that it will beryllium acceptable to enactment the program into cognition arsenic σύντομα arsenic the law court’s support is secured.

To this end, it said that 33 caller staff positions person been secured and will beryllium filled done the state’s hiring agency, ASEP, successful the coming months. The telephone will beryllium addressed exclusively to candidates who passed the ASEP introspection past July, so that hiring tin beryllium completed successful 2026.

Furthermore, two caller branches will beryllium created within the Natural Environment and Climate Change Agency (NECCA), which is liable for the country’s protected areas, to administer and oversee the caller marine parks from offices connected the islands of Milos, Amorgos, Zakynthos, Kefalonia and Kythira.