Hosted by SALL , contributed by mgkapetanakis on 3 February 2025
Even the smallest change in our environment has a direct effect on the populations of butterflies and bees. These populations are in a sense like the canaries once used by coal miners to gauge air safety in the mines. Monitoring them serves as a crucial method for assessing environmental health. Moreover, it assists policymakers in the EU in shaping their environmental strategies.
Our school is actively engaged in two programs aimed at documenting and preserving butterfly and bee species in our region, in partnership with the Technological University of Cyprus and the University of Cyprus. Every 15 days, we meticulously record the climatic conditions and conduct population surveys of butterflies using the "transect" method. These findings are then uploaded to a shared European database.