Discover Rhodes News and travel information about the island of Rhodes (Rodos) in Greece.

Ecofilms and the side event Ecokids, is a film festival held in June of every year on the island of Rhodes. Documentaries, shorts and features with environmental and ecology subjects, encouraging the awareness on conservation issues and issues related with the natural, the human and the built environment are invited to participate. Prizes are awarded to films for their innovative approach in conservation issues, for their daring proposal in subject ...

The Hellenic Ornithological Society (HOS) runs a bird-watching and tagging program on the small island of Antikythera, 17 miles northwest of Crete, between June 20 and October 20. You will need a good pair of binoculars or a telescope, a hat, sunscreen, your sleeping bag and a bird guide. For at least 15 days you will be recording the birds of prey migrating over the island, which is part of ...

The Blue Flag Award is a voluntary eco-label program ran by a non-governmental institution, the Denmark’s Foundation for Environmental Education, that compiles a selection of organized beaches around the world (currently 37 countries and more than 3.300 beaches), based on certain criteria like the water quality, infrastructures, services and environmental activities. During the 2007 season Greece ranked 2nd with 430 awarded beaches. Rhodes can be proud of its shores. ...

Kathimerini's English Edition has published an extensive commentary on this year Rodos Ecofilms Festival (21 - 26 June 2007): " There was a bittersweet sense about many of the works shown at the Ecofilms Festival that ended Sunday on Rhodes. Inevitably, films about depleted resources, environmental devastation, the hazards of development and conflict loom large in a festival that focuses on the environment and the people who inhabit it. Yet ...