Non-profit Organisations

Corfu Butterfly Conservation
Corfu Butterfly Conservation is a project initiated by concerned residents, island visitors and scientists from all over the world. Its goal is to stimulate informed interest and produce robust scientific data that can be used to influence policy and protect habitat for the benefit of Corfu’s butterflies and the wider natural environment, on which we all depend. The immediate aim is to record the distribution of butterflies on the island and to publish an atlas of Corfu Butterflies based on this information.
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The Ark
The well-known Austrian actress Gabriele Jacoby and a group of like minded animal lovers, both Greeks and foreigners, founded the Ark in 1997. It was formed primarily to alleviate the suffering of stray and abandoned animals on the island of Corfu. The Ark is a registered charity and is administered by an elected board of trustees who are responsible for the various functions necessary to ensure the smooth running of the organization. We receive no government funding and rely entirely on volunteers and the generosity of our members and the public for our income, which comes mainly from donations and fund raising activities. More animals are being abandoned and funds to help them are becoming harder to find. That is why your help is more important than ever if we are to continue our programme of neutering and re-homing Corfu's population of stray animals.
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Mediterranean Garden Society
The MGS acts as a focus for everyone who has a special interest in the plants and gardens of mediterranean-climate regions. The MGS has members in thirty-eight countries throughout the world and Branches of the society have been formed in many areas to organise meetings and activities locally. The society publishes a quarterly journal The Mediterranean Garden with articles contributed by its members. The garden at Sparoza, just outside Athens, is managed by the society to demonstrate gardening that is in sympathy with the natural surroundings and our philosophy of waterwise gardening. The MGS is a place for discussing mediterranean plants, cultivated and wild, as well as every aspect of gardens and gardening in a mediterranean climate.
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