Protected Lara turtle beach dispute intensifies as illegal umbrellas, tents defy law

The Inia local authority’s longstanding push for an organised tourist beach at Lara conflicts with existing legislation protecting the site, a dispute reignited after visitors and environmental organisations found umbrellas, sunbeds and tents illegally placed on the protected beach, one of the Mediterranean’s most important nesting sites for Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas sea turtles. […]

By Angelos Nicolaou