Martin Abbas Hellicar dies aged 56

Highly respected environmentalist and journalist Martin Abbas Hellicar died on Saturday, aged 56.

He passed away in hospital where he was being treated after sustaining serious injuries in a car accident almost two weeks ago.

Martin was the director of the non-governmental conservation organisation Birdlife Cyprus and had previously worked as a journalist for the Cyprus Mail for a period of ten years from the early nineties.

Always a keen ornithologist, moving to BirdLife Cyprus was his dream job.