REGION WESTERN GREECE
Prefecture ILIA
CITIZENS
UNION FOR ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Date of Initial
Completion: 20/7/1996 1st Update: 25/2/1998 2nd Update (CHAP.I):
15/12/1999
Date of Last Update: 14/3/2001
e_mail: kragaris@hellasnet.gr
I. Identity of
Organisation
Address
LECHENA Postal
Code 270 53 Street: 2, DIONYSSIOU
SPILIOPOULOU STR.
Tel. 26230-22250, 26230-22967 Fax
26230-22250
Contact Persons: DIONISIS KRAGARIS
Tel. 26230-22250
Legal Status
The Organisation
is Civic non Profit Organisation since 1994
Aims
Protecting the
environment / sensitizing the citizens on ecology and environment / promoting
activities which
relate to the environment and ecology
/ cultural activities
Members and
Friends
With voting
right: 31 of whom have paid their membership fee: 15
Material Substructure
Office: Guest,
Operating days: Daily, Operating hours:
Office hours
There are databases in Paper its
morph and structure is Kotyhi / wetlands / forests / haunting
Activities Hall: 100 individuals (it
is offered from the municipality)
Remarks: There is a three-member
administration committee operating with member succession
on annual bases
Administrative
board
Kragaris Dionisis Member of the Administrative Board
Aggelopoulos
Aggelos Member of the Administrative Board
Lainas Takis Member of the Administrative Board
II. Activities
General
Issue: Ecosystems protection
Issue-Topic: Arsanas of Killini /
Pinios river
From: 1994 To: 1995 Range: Regional
Activities
- Results:
Aversion of
chocking of the estuary with refuse-dump / Interventions made to the competent
administrative and
legislative authorities / organisation of an
informational meeting regarding the importance of the estuary and
Organisation of
local agency meetings, bringing charges, publications and mobilisation of the
residents regarding the
constant deterioration and pollution
of Pinios river (land grabbing, illegal building, rubbish dumps e.t.c.).
Issue-Topic:
Estuaries
From: 1994 To: 1996 Range: National
Activities
- Results:
Informing the
public about the importance of Korichi estuary and Strofilia forest and of
their problems / Submission of
proposals for the promotion of the
estuary
Lodging of
complains for the lack of a protection legislative framework for the estuary
and the surrounding area /
Representations made to the public
authorities regarding the appropriate implementation of established
international
conventions.
The result was
the initiation of the area surveying activities, setting up of a management
agency, construction of bird
observation posts.
Issue-Topic:
Forests
From: 1994 To: 1996 Range: Local
Activities
- Results:
Bringing charges
against land-grabbing activities, illegal building, arsons and declassification
of forest land.
Participation in tree planting
efforts.
Organisation of various
forest-related events in collaboration with the Forest Inspection.
General Issue: Environmental
protection
Issue-Topic: Coasts
From: 1994 To: 1996 Range: Local
Activities
- Results:
Publications,
bringing charges and participation in protestation against illegal building
activities.
Bringing charges, publications and
representations made to the public authorities against those who carry out
illegal
sand-grabbing activities.
Bringing
charges, publications in relation to sea
oil pollution incidents.
General
Issue: Information - Sensitisation of the public
Issue-Topic: Environmental education
From: 1994 To: 1996 Range: Local
Activities
- Results:
Carrying out of
guiding tours at Kotichi and Strofilia / Elaboration of speeches at schools and
offices and provision of
Organisation of meetings -
consultation meetings with local agencies and citizens on environmental issues.
Provision of help, material,
information to the environmental groups of schools.
Issue-Topic:
Publications - Cooperation with the media
From: 1995 To: 1996 Range: National
Activities
- Results:
Publication of
postcards with Kotichi and Strofilia forest in collaboration with EKVI.
Publication of a quarterly newspaper
about ecology and culture entitles 'Droseli'
Publication of an informational leaflet about Kotichi in
collaboration with EKVI.
Speeches, interviews to the media and
press releases.
Issue-Topic:
Various events
From: 1994 To: 1996 Range: Local
Activities
- Results:
Organisation of
various events in relation to hunting (provision of information, speeches,
screening of transparencies,
entering into a dialogue with the public.
Participation in
the Environment Day celebrations through the organisation of speeches, a
concert and a
Participation in the 'Birds Day' that
the Greek Ornithological Society held in Kotichi.
Organisation of a photographic exhibition in collaboration with
EKVI under the title 'Water Ways' - Informing the
public about estuaries
General
Issue: Natural resources management
Issue-Topic: Organic crops
From: 1994 To: 1996 Range: Prefectural
Activities
- Results:
Bringing charges,
publications for the taking of measures for the minimisation of negative
environmental impacts
stemming from the use of pesticides.
Attempts made for
the development of organic crops and bringing changes in the irrigation system
(water recycling
Submission of proposals regarding the
Pinios river drainage network.
General
Issue: Protection of wild fauna
Issue-Topic: Hunting
From: 1994 To: 1996 Range: Local
Activities
- Results:
Organisation of
speeches and events, bringing charges, publications lodging complaints against
the implementation
of the hunting-related legislation.
Issue-Topic: Sea fauna
From: 1994 To: 1996 Range: Local
Activities
- Results:
Co-operation with
the Society for the Protection of Sea Turtles in relation to the
hospitalisation of CARETTA-CARETTA
see turtles and the recording of dead
animals
Bringing charges
and informing the public about dead dolphins
Bringing charges against those who
fish with illegal means such as dynamites.
Issue-Topic:
Spitokirkinezo (bird)
The activity took
place in 1995 Range: Local
Activities
- Results:
Launching of a
campaign involving the organisation of speeches at schools, in favour of the
protection of
Placing of nests at buildings of
Lechana community in collaboration with the Forest Inspection, schools and the
Fire
General Issue: Refuse management
Issue-Topic: Industrial waste
From: 1994 To: 1996 Range: Prefectural
Activities
- Results:
Publications,
bringing charges, debates, bringing forward proposals regarding the realisation
of the existing situation
and the taking of measures (i.e.
construction of sewage system).
Action taken for
the protection of the estuaries from agricultural, stock-raising and industrial
pollution.
Issue-Topic:
Rubbish dumps
From: 1994 To: 1996 Range: Local
Activities
- Results:
Participation
with the local residents in protestations for the closure of the municipality
of Mirtountion Development
Agency' rubbish dump.
Bringing charges,
publications, participation in meetings with the view of closing various
rubbish dumps in the area.
Future
Plans
General Issue: Protection of biotopes
Issue - Topic: Planning the
convention
The action has
been programmed for the year 1998 Range Peripheral
Future
Activities:
Planning the Kotihi convention - Strofylia
General
Issue: Promotion - Preservation of the cultural heritage
Issue - Topic: Culture and
environment
The action has
been programmed for the year 1998 Range Local
Future
Activities:
Making use
G.Poniri bequest for raising the cultural center at Lehaina
III. Source of
Information
Ecological printed material, personal
contacts, telephone calls from residents.
Source of information: PATRIDA
Subject: Local problems
Time period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level
1/1994-9/1996 Daily Ours High
Source of information:
PROINI
Subject: Local problems
Time period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level
1/1994-9/1996 Daily Ours High
Source of information:
AUGI
Subject: Local problems.
Time period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level
1/1994-9/1996 Daily. Ours High
Source of information: DIMOKRATIKI
Subject: Local problems.
Time period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level
1/1994-9/1996 Daily Ours High
IV. Relations with the Press
Title:
PATRIDA
Subject:
Local environmental issues
Type Circulation Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction Level
Newspaper Local 1/1994-9/1996 every week Common High
Title:
PROINI
Subject:
Local environmental issues
Type Circulation Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction Level
Newspaper Local 1/1994-9/1996 every week Common High
Title:
ELEYTHEROTIPIA
Subject:
Local environmental issues
Type Circulation Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction Level
Newspaper National 1/1994-9/1996 occasionally Ours High
Title: NEA
OIKOLOGIA
Subject:
Local environmental issues
Type Circulation Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction Level
Magazine National 1/1994-9/1996 occasionally Common High
Title:
ANAKIKLOSI
Subject:
Local environmental issues
Type Circulation Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction Level
Magazine National 1/1994-9/1996 occasionally Common High
Title:
AMPHIBIO
Subject:
Local environmental issues
Type Circulation Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction Level
Magazine National 1/1994-9/1996 occasionally Common High
V. Relations with
Mass Media
Title: ORT
Subject: Depending on the occasion
Type Rang Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level
T.V. Local 1/1994-9/1996 every month Common High
Title: Radio Station of Pyrgos
Subject: Depending on the occasion
Type Rang Time Period Frequency Initiative Satisfaction level
Radio Local 1/1994-9/1996 every week Common High
VI. Relations with others ENGO
Name: Hellenic Ornithological Society
Subject: Co-organising demonstrations
for birds
Nativity Time period Initiative Satisfaction level
No 1/1994-9/1996 Theirs Moderate
Name: Greek Biotope\Wetland Center
Subject: Tours,Photo exhibition,
publications of papers and cards
Nativity Time period Initiative Satisfaction level
No 1/1994-9/1996 Common High
Name: Ecological Movement of Patra
Subject: All issues
Nativity Time period Initiative Satisfaction level
No 1/1994-9/1996 Common Low
Name: Society for the Protection of the Landscape and Environment
of Northeastern
Communes in the Province of Patra
Subject: All
issues
Nativity Time period Initiative Satisfaction level
No 1/1994-9/1996 Common Low
Name: Ecological Movement of
Zakynthos
Subject: All issues
Nativity Time period Initiative Satisfaction level
No 1/1994-9/1996 Common Low
Name: Association for the Environmental Protection of Aigio
"Pronia-frontida" (Welfare-
Care)
Subject: All
issues
Nativity Time period Initiative Satisfaction level
No 1/1994-9/1996 Common Low
VII. Relations with Public and Private Bodies
Name: Municipality of Lehaina
Subject: Local issues
Time Period Initiative Satisfaction level
1/1994-9/1996 Ours Very Low
Name: Prefectural government
Subject: Local issues
Time Period Initiative Satisfaction level
1/1995-9/1996 Ours Low
Name: Schools of Lehaina
Subject: Setting of nests,recycling,
environmental education,guided tour
Time Period Initiative Satisfaction level
1/1994-9/1996 Ours High
Name: Forest inspection
Subject: Setting of nests, hunting,
tree-plantantation, demonstrations
Time Period Initiative Satisfaction level
1/1994-9/1996 Ours Low
Name: Fire department
Subject: Setting of nests
Time Period Initiative Satisfaction level
1/1995-12/1995 Ours High
VIII. Printed material of the ENGO