![]() Around the casino, work advances on villas and golf greens, while seven new towers are also proposed. Despite protestations by BirdLife Cyprus and other environmental organisations, the casino mushroomed up to form a nightmarish backdrop to the wetlands, and the floodgates of development flew open. So the mammoth casino development went ahead, despite the pretty obvious impacts this will have on the hydrology of the island’s most precious wetland complex and by increasing visitor pressure on this fragile area (to mention just two key issues). A bird-watching hut in the Akrotiri wetlands with the casino in the background The British bases, meanwhile, responsible for the protected areas at Akrotiri, added injury to presidential insult, by deciding there was no need for a full environmental assessment on their part. ![]() ![]() The impact assessment duly gave the go-ahead for the development. I remind readers that so eager was the last government to see the casino built, that the then president, Nicos Anastasiades – gold shovel in hand – was participating in a ceremony for the laying of the foundation stone before his own government’s environmental impact procedure had been completed.
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