Chios Nature

On Monday, 17th July we shall be opening our 9th Wildlife Photography exhibition in the garden at Perivoli, Kampos, Chios. There will be a short prizegiving and we're particularly delighted by the number of primary school children that submitted their work. If you can tell whether the images belong to an adult or a child we will shake you firmly by the hand and offer you a cooling drink! Do join us at 8pm.

With one of the first signs of Spring, captured by Antonia Aga, we announce that once again this year we will be running our Wildlife Photography Competition.

Entry open to all. Please send a maximum of 15 images taken in Chios, Oinousses or Psara to Yannis Voulgaris at [email protected]

Deadline: end of May '23. The five thematic categories are: Animal Portrait, Wild Landscape, Man and Nature, The Magic of Plants, Wild Behaviour

File sizes should be as large as possible for printing and possible inclusion in our Exhibition that will open in July.

Stealing Menelaos Pangalos's photo to alert everyone that it's wild tulip season in Chios again!

It's six months since the sudden death of Mike Taylor - our inspiration and source of dependable information on almost any of the species of flora and fauna that can be met with on Chios. How to remember him without writing pages? Should we talk about his knowledge and love of our little bee orchids or speak of the methodical and painstaking science that went into his study of our moths and butterflies? Or maybe we should remember how passionately he spoke up for the preservation of the island's few remaining wetlands, most notably at Marmaro just to the south of Kardamyla.

Perhaps the most visible monument to his love of the wildlife of Chios is the Dragonfly Reserve that he lobbied hard for and finally had the satisfaction of seeing established. Home to a surprising number of dragon and damsel fly species, the little lake, just outside the village of Armolia, now draws naturalists from Greece and beyond. Mike himself may have left us, but his work lives on!