Film Presentatio "Asbestos: Past, Present and Future"

On Wednesday, February 18,  the film "Asbestos: Past, Present and Future" was shown to a packed auditorium at the University of Nicosia. The film  has been produced within the project "Biodiversity Conservation in Restoration and Management of the Amiantos Asbestos Mine in Troodos National Forest Park"

Cyprus was an important asbestos producer during the classical and particularly the Greco-Roman times. The modern mining activity started in 1904 and the asbestos mine became the largest and most populous mine in Cyprus, with a huge economic, technological and social contribution to the development of the island. Thousands of people from all parts of the island worked there, thus turning the place into an organized town with a Community Council, a church, a hospital, a school and shops.

The film captures scenes and features people who worked in the mind and who describe the working conditions and their life there. Scenes from the work carried out for the difficult and costly rehabilitation and replanting of the area are also shown.