Artemis Yiordamli

Artemis is executive director of the Laona Foundation for the Conservation and Regeneration of the Cypriot Countryside based in Limassol, Cyprus. She has also been the Executive Director of Terra Cypria, the Cyprus Conservation Foundation, and a member of the Eurosite Board. Artemis has coordinated various multi-disciplinary EU and UN funded projects ranging from the introduction of agrotourism to Cyprus, to implementing the Landscape Convention and introducing the environmental acquis to the Cypriot judiciary. Artemis’ background is in law and management and she holds a doctorate in Human Geography from Oxford University, focusing on the understanding and implementation of environmental law in the Mediterranean.

Before founding the two above -mentioned NGOs, she was Chief Executive of the Cyprus Hotel Association and consultant to the International Labour Office. As an NGO partner Artemis represented Terra Cypria for 20 years at the Bern Convention for the Protection of Wildlife and Habitats (Council of Europe) and led the Convention’s NGO team for the last six years of her participation. Artemis undertook the radical revision of the Eurosite Statutes in 2017.

She follows the European Landscape Convention, and played an active part in introducing it to Cyprus.  In 2024 Artemis played a key role in producing the Larnaca Manifesto on the Significance of Cultural Landscape, signed by national and local organisations from ten European states participating in the Horizon 2020 project Beyond Cultural Tourism.  The Laona Foundation focuses on issues of landscape and desertification in the face of climate change and is especially involved in fire resilience matters.

Website: www.laona.org