Reuters: Conservationists in Cyprus are in a race against time to save the island’s forests from being wiped out by drought and fire. Once known as the “Green Island” of the Mediterranean, forests now cover less than half of Cyprus. Over the years forest fires and drought have decimated scores of trees, with blackened stumps or brown trees a blight on the landscape. “There are a number of areas where the forests are drying up even though we have had rain,” said Andreas Christou, a …