REGION PELOPONNISSOS

  Prefecture   LAKONIA

                                              ECOLOGICAL CONNECTION OF LAKONIA

   Date of Initial Completion: 12/9/1996                1st Update: 16/2/1998             2nd Update (CHAP.I):  17/12/1999

                                                             Date of Last Update: 2/3/2001

I. Identity of Organisation

Address

SPARTI Postal Code 231 00 Street:  14, KONSTANTINOU PALEOLOGOU STR.

Tel. 27310-27313 Fax 27310-24060, 27310-27313

Contact Persons: KIRIAKOS MICHALAKAKOS Tel. 27310-27313, 6976 795323

Legal Status

The Organisation is Civic non Profit Organisation since 1989

Aims

Protecting the environment / promoting  ecological awareness in Greece using all the necessary means /

supporting ecological and environmental friendly activities / elaborating and assigning the elaboration of studies

and researches on others

Permanent abolition of crop dusting with toxic substances / repairing the damages made to Eurota and

recognizing it as a biotope and historical monument which needs special protection / characterizing Taygetos,

Parnona and Lakonikos gulf as a protected area etc

Members and Friends

With voting right: 50 Without voting right: 60 of whom have paid their membership fee: 30

Material Substructure

Office: Guest, Operating days: Daily,  Operating hours: Office hours

The organisation has access to personal computer and it is mainly uses it for Elaboration of documents

There are databases in Paper its morph and structure is Basic protocol / files of general mail and of the

associations activities  / files of scientific – ecological issues

Activities Hall: Rooms of the Municipal, of hotels and of the Greek Mountain Association of Spartis are used

Vehicles: The cars of the members are used

For the organisation is offering voluntary work 1 member.

Administrative board

Michalakakos Kiriakos                                       President

Vachaviolos Ilias                                               Vice President

Mitrakos Ioannis                                               Secretary

Vavaroutsos Georgios                                       Treasurer

Smirnios Kostas                                                Member

II. Activities

General Issue: Ecosystems protection

Issue-Topic: Evrotas

From: 1989  To: 1998                                               Range:  Prefectural

Activities - Results:

Informing the public about the land grabbing activities in the coastal forest, the illegal drinking water drinking

activities, the pollution of caused from household waste and pesticides.

Submission of an integrated management proposal to the Sparta municipality in relation to Evrotas. Parts of the

proposal were incorporated in DEYAS' proposals for the inclusion of Evrotas projects into LIFE  programme.

Issue-Topic: Taigetos

From: 1990  To: 1998                                               Range:  Prefectural

Activities - Results:

Action taken to declare Taigetos mountain a national park, in collaboration with the mountaineering club of Sparta /

Informing and sensitising the public through the local media/ Organisation of two meetings.


General Issue: Environmental protection

Issue-Topic: Aerial crop spraying

From: 1989  To: 1998                                               Range:  Prefectural

Activities - Results:

Sensitisation of the public through the media / Direct interventions made to the prefectural Directorate of Agriculture,

the Ministry of Agriculture, local communities / Publication of an informational leaflet.

General Issue: Natural resources management

Issue-Topic: Organic agriculture

From: 1989  To: 1998                                               Range:  Prefectural

Activities - Results:

Informing agriculturists-farmers / Organisation of a meeting in collaboration with  the Greek Organic Agriculture

Society which resulted in the submission by farmers in Laconia of 200 applications for their participation in organic

General Issue: Protection of wild fauna

Issue-Topic: Hospitalisation of injured birds

From: 1989  To: 1998                                               Range:  Prefectural

Activities - Results:

Hospitalisation of more than 60 birds of pray in collaboration with EKPAZP.

General Issue: Refuse management

Issue-Topic: Recycling

From: 1990  To: 1998                                               Range:  Prefectural

Activities - Results:

Submission of proposals to the municipality regarding the integrated management of refuse through the sensitisation

 of the public and the carrying out of recycling programmes.

General Issue: Urban environment

Issue-Topic: Regeneration projects

From: 1990  To: 1998                                               Range:  Prefectural

Activities - Results:

Submission of proposals to the municipality for the regeneration of Chimaros area and the construction of recreation

areas such as groves e.t.c

III. Source of Information

First hand observations – Citizen denunciations/ Greenpeace/ WWF/ Hellenic Ornithological Society/ Hellenic

Wildlife Hospital/ Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature

IV. Relations with the Press

Title: LAKONIKA (SPARTIATIKA) NEA

Subject: NGO's activities

Type                 Circulation      Time Period                     Frequency                       Initiative            Satisfaction Level

Newspaper           Local        1/1990-9/1996                 occasionally                          Ours                        High


Title: PARATIRITIS/LAKONIKOS TIPOS

Subject: NGO's activities

Type                 Circulation      Time Period                     Frequency                       Initiative            Satisfaction Level

Newspaper           Local        1/1991-9/1996                once a month                         Ours                      Perfect

Title: NEA OIKOLOGIA (N.O.)

Subject: Manipulative proposition for the river Eurota/ a two-day session on organic farming.

Type                 Circulation      Time Period                     Frequency                       Initiative            Satisfaction Level

Magazine           National      1/1995-9/1996                    2 times                             Ours                      Perfect

V. Relations with Mass Media

Title: ELLADA TV

Subject: NGO's activities

Type                   Rang             Time Period                   Frequency                        Initiative             Satisfaction level

T.V.                     Local             1/1994-                    circumstantially                    Common                     High

Title: SPARTI TV

Subject: NGO's activities

Type                   Rang             Time Period                   Frequency                        Initiative             Satisfaction level

T.V.                     Local             1/1994-                    circumstantially                    Common                     High

Title: FLY FM

Type                   Rang             Time Period                   Frequency                        Initiative             Satisfaction level

Radio                   Local                  -                                                                                                     High

Title: RADIO SPARTI

Type                   Rang             Time Period                   Frequency                        Initiative             Satisfaction level

Radio                   Local                  -                                                                                                     High


Title: Greece FM (ELLADA FM)

Type                   Rang             Time Period                   Frequency                        Initiative             Satisfaction level

Radio                   Local                  -                                                                                                     High

Title: Municipal radio station (DIMOTIKO RADIOFONO)

Subject: Environmental issues

Type                   Rang             Time Period                   Frequency                        Initiative             Satisfaction level

Radio                   Local       1/1990-12/1994       production every 15 days                Ours                        High

VI. Relations with others ENGO

Name: Association of Ecological Agriculture of Greece

Subject: Co-organising meeting on biological agriculture

Nativity                                 Time period                                                           Initiative             Satisfaction level

No                                      5/1995-5/1995                                                            Ours                        High

Name: New Ecology

Subject: Participation in M.Modinos' lecture at the meeting for ecological agriculture

Nativity                                 Time period                                                           Initiative             Satisfaction level

No                                      5/1995-5/1995                                                            Ours                        High

Name: Ecological Movement of Patra

Subject: Sending the newspaper "En Aithria"

Nativity                                 Time period                                                           Initiative             Satisfaction level

No                                      1/1995-9/1996                                                           Theirs                       High

VII. Relations with Public and Private Bodies

Name: Greek alpine association of Sparti

Subject: National park of Taigetos-quarries closure

Time Period                                                                                                       Initiative              Satisfaction level

1/1993-9/1996                                                                                                  Common                      High

Name: Municipal enterprise of water supply-Sewerage of Sparti

Subject: Eurotas

Time Period                                                                                                       Initiative              Satisfaction level

1/1993-12/1994                                                                                                    Ours                         Low

VIII. Printed material of the ENGO