Wildlife in Northern Cyprus
	In the Eastern Mediterranean, North Cyprus is one of the few places free from heavy concentration of industry and people (51.1 people per square km), and is one of the least polluted regions in the European periphery.  Within an area of 3,355 sq. km. North Cyprus offers 387 kilometres of picturesque coastline with both sandy and rocky beaches and pine, cypress and maquis covered hills reaching an altitudeof about 1,000 metres.  Escaping the last ice age, the island of Cyprus has managed to retain a substantial amount of biological diversity with a significant amount of endemic species. Plant species number about 1,600 (22 endemic); bird species about 350 (7 endemic); and there are 26 reptile and amphibian species.  About 46 sandy beaches in North Cyprus comprise the main nestling ground for the endangered Chelonia Mydas and Caretta Caretta sea turtles in the Eastern Mediterranean. In 1992, about 1,500 rare female turtles laid eggs on the shores of North Cyprus. The island is on one of the main migration routes of birds between Eastern Europe and Africa. Each year approximately 300 species amounting to millions of birds use this route in early spring and late summer.  The last colony of European Audouin seagulls nest on the small Klidhes isles at the tip of the Karpas peninsula.
	Endemic and Passage-Migrant Birds of Cyprus
	Cyprus Donkey
	Cypriot Moufflon: An Endangered Specie
	The reclusive Cypriot Moufflon, an indigenous wild mountain sheep that was hunted to the verge of extinction and now survives with an estimated 200 breeding pairs in the protected reserve of the Paphos Forest Station, in the South Cyprus. There are a similar number of vocal but shy wild donkeys in the Karpas peninsula, in North Cyprus.
	Cyprus Hedgehog
	Amphibians and Reptiles of North Cyprus - by B.Göçmen
	Endemic Snakes of the island Publications On the Specimens of Lacerta laevis Gray, 1838 (Sauria: Lacertidae) from North Cyprus A Preliminary Report On the Herpetofauna of North Cyprus On the Samples of Chalcides ocellatus Forskal, 1775 (Sauria: Scincidae) from N. Cyprus A New Subspecies, Ablepharus kitaibelii (Bibron & Borry, 1833) budaki n. ssp. (Sauria: Scincidae) from North Cyprus On the Specimens of Mabuya vittata (Banded Lizard) (Sauria: Scincidae) from North Cyprus A Serological Comparison of the Populations of the Lacerta laevis Complex in N. Cyprus and S. Turkey The Rumen Ciliate Fauna of Domestic Sheep (Ovis ammon aries) from North Cyprus A New Record of Schneider's Skink, Eumeces schneideri Daudin, 1802 (Sauria: Scincidae) from Cyprus
	Animal Welfare in North Cyprus