Muddy Duck makes short films about conservation

A TEAM of graduate scientists from the University of Exeter have produced five short films which will be released by the end of the year to publicise the work of fellow North Cyprus-based biologists at the Marine Turtle Conservation Project and the North Cyprus Society for the Protection of Birds and Nature (Kuşkor).

The Muddy Duck Productions media start-up quartet swapped microscopes for video cameras after graduating to spread their environmental message to a wider public.

They were featured in Cyprus Today in July on their first visit to North Cyprus which yielded short films of turtles and project volunteers at Alagadi, a new Fisheries Bycatch Project and field trips with Kuşkor.

An interview with research biologist Robin Snape can be viewed on Kuşkor social media, which details work since 2007 to protect the most easterly colony of endangered Audouin’s gulls on the Klidhes islands off the Karpaz and the similarly endangered Mediterranean shag.

A Kuşkor nesting box project for the threatened roller, a predator of game bird chicks and eggs unloved by hunters, is also the subject of a short film, as is a study of the declining Bonelli’s eagle.

Films are subtitled in Turkish, suitable for use in schools and will be uploaded to the Kuşkor website and social media pages.