Cyprus -Nature- Sea Turtles

Sea turtles spend most of their lives in the water and only emerge onto dry land in order to lay their eggs. This takes place during a short time span and mostly at night. In order to lay their legs, they need to find untouched, undistributed, rather wide areas of sandy beach. Increase in the tourism activities in most Mediterranean countries has led to the turtles� loss of irreplaceable egg-laying sites.

On the other hand North Cyprus has undistributed areas where they may lay their eggs in the sand. There are two species which come to breed on Cyprus: the Loggerhead turtle ( Caretta Caretta ) and the rare Green turtle ( Chelonia mydas ). Up to %30 of all Green Turtles nest of the coastline of Northern Cyprus.