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					<title>The European wildcat hovers between recovery and local extinction</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/the-european-wildcat-hovers-between-recovery-and-local-extinction/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 May 2026 13:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Czech Republic, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, and Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Cats, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Forests, Funding, Genetics, Habitat Loss, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Human-wildlife Conflict, Hunting, Mammals, Parasites, Population, Reintroductions, Saving Species From Extinction, Small Cats, Solutions, Species recovery, Wildlife, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[A quiet comeback story is unfolding for the European wildcat in the Czech Republic’s Lusatian Mountains. Conservationists tracking this elusive species there have spotted a male and female, named Jonáš and Tonka, the first to be found in the region in nearly a century. This small cat species lives in forests across Europe. It’s doing [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A quiet comeback story is unfolding for the European wildcat in the Czech Republic’s Lusatian Mountains. Conservationists tracking this elusive species there have spotted a male and female, named Jonáš and Tonka, the first to be found in the region in nearly a century. This small cat species lives in forests across Europe. It’s doing relatively well in some places and is imperiled in others, like the Czech Republic, where it’s critically endangered. The European wildcat (Felis silvestris), which is around the size of a large housecat, was wiped out because of disappearing habitat — and persecution. They were considered vermin and killed because they preyed on poultry and they were hunted for sport. More recently, they’re sometimes hybridizing, breeding with domestic cats. Numbers are spotty across parts of their range, so overall population numbers and trends, whether they’re rebounding or declining, is currently unknown. That’s a challenge shared by many of the world’s 30-plus small wildcat species that are often overlooked by research and funding. But they are hanging on in the Czech Republic. Earlier this year, Tonka gave birth to at least three kittens, offering hope that a slow wildcat recovery may be underway. Conservationists set up “hair traps,” wooden posts smeared with a lure that attracts the wildcats, then analyzed DNA from fur they left behind when they rubbed on them to mark their territory, as cats do. Genetically confirmed records of wildcat births are “exceedingly rare” in the country, said Kristýna Chroboková, field coordinator with the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/the-european-wildcat-hovers-between-recovery-and-local-extinction/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-318902</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Plastic, from home and abroad, spills into Türkiye’s waters</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/plastic-from-home-and-abroad-spills-into-turkiyes-waters/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/plastic-from-home-and-abroad-spills-into-turkiyes-waters/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 Mar 2026 16:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Guia BaggiUtku Kuran]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Europe, Mediterranean Sea, Middle East, and Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Economics, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Global Environmental Crisis, Industry, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Microplastics, Oceans, Plastic, Pollution, Recycling, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[ADANA, Türkiye — Along the final stretch of the Seyhan River, in southern Türkiye, plastic bits in various colors dot the water and sediment. When the river bends, shredded plastic, degraded by the elements, forms large gray patches. Downstream, where the Seyhan flows into Mersin Bay, debris large enough to display clues to its origin [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[ADANA, Türkiye — Along the final stretch of the Seyhan River, in southern Türkiye, plastic bits in various colors dot the water and sediment. When the river bends, shredded plastic, degraded by the elements, forms large gray patches. Downstream, where the Seyhan flows into Mersin Bay, debris large enough to display clues to its origin lies scattered across the wetland: wrinkled German-labeled packages of Thai-style chicken noodles, unopened single-use cutlery from the U.K., an empty margarine box from Spain, among many others. Between the small village of Baharlı and the sea, fishing barracks stand at the juncture of a large canal and the river. A fisher uses a wooden oar to lift the anoxic black sediments and show how plastic fragments have become ubiquitous across the riverbed. They are everywhere, his colleague Halil Balıkçıoğlu told Mongabay, along with sewage and chemical waste from big factories. “It wasn&#8217;t like this 30 years ago,” Balıkçıoğlu said. “We used to make tea with this water.” Fishing barracks at the juncture of a large canal and the Seyhan River. Image by Utku Kuran for Mongabay. In recent years, there’s been a rapid evolution in the local recycling industry largely fed by imports of foreign waste. According to U.N. Comtrade data, 677,663 metric tons of plastic scraps traveled to Türkiye in 2024 alone, 77% of it from the U.K. and the EU combined. Since China closed its doors to plastic waste imports in 2018, Türkiye has become a major destination. Most of this scrap heads&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/plastic-from-home-and-abroad-spills-into-turkiyes-waters/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-315550</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Baby gorilla seized from traffickers languishes in Turkish zoo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/baby-gorilla-seized-from-traffickers-languishes-in-turkish-zoo/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/baby-gorilla-seized-from-traffickers-languishes-in-turkish-zoo/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>13 Feb 2026 15:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Central Africa, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Turkey, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Biodiversity, Conservation, Crime, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Gorillas, Great Apes, Poaching, Primates, trafficking, Wildlife, Wildlife Trafficking, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[In December 2024, Turkish customs officers were flummoxed when they discovered a malnourished baby gorilla in the cargo hold of an airplane flying from Nigeria to Bangkok, transiting via Istanbul. Wearing a soiled T-shirt, the 5-month-old infant was shoved inside a wooden crate falsely declared to contain 50 rabbits. After a social media campaign, he [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In December 2024, Turkish customs officers were flummoxed when they discovered a malnourished baby gorilla in the cargo hold of an airplane flying from Nigeria to Bangkok, transiting via Istanbul. Wearing a soiled T-shirt, the 5-month-old infant was shoved inside a wooden crate falsely declared to contain 50 rabbits. After a social media campaign, he was named Zeytin, which means “olive” in Turkish. This critically endangered western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) was being smuggled to an animal farm in Bangkok without any export permits or paperwork. All great apes, including gorillas, are afforded the highest protection under CITES, an international treaty regulating wildlife trade, making commercial transnational trade illegal. They can be transferred between zoos or exported for scientific research but require official paperwork. After the seizure made global headlines, Turkish authorities sent Zeytin to Polonezköy Zoo in Istanbul. Meanwhile, they said they were working to imminently dispatch him to a sanctuary in Africa, where he could possibly be released into the wild. But one year on, those plans seem to have bitten the dust. As of September 2025, Zeytin was seen languishing in the same zoo, living a lonely life in a cage — the very life many thought he had escaped. “At present, Türkiye does not have adequate facilities to meet the long-term physical, social and psychological needs of a gorilla,” said primate expert Aslıhan Niksarlı at the Jane Goodall Institute who directs Roots &amp; Shoots Türkiye. “There are also no other gorillas in the country, which&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/baby-gorilla-seized-from-traffickers-languishes-in-turkish-zoo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-314164</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Protecting coastal waters may be the best investment you&#8217;ve never heard of, says Kristin Rechberger</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/protecting-coastal-waters-may-be-the-best-investment-youve-never-heard-of-says-kristin-rechberger/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Apr 2025 22:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Britain, Global, Greece, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Portugal, and Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[30x30 conservation target, blue economy, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Economics, Environment, Fishing, Interviews, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Overfishing, Protected Areas, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[The ocean has long been treated as the world’s forgotten frontier—out of sight, out of mind, and dangerously overused. Yet efforts to reverse decades of neglect are gathering speed. Last week saw the launch of Revive Our Ocean, a new initiative aimed at helping coastal communities create marine protected areas (MPAs) to restore both marine [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The ocean has long been treated as the world’s forgotten frontier—out of sight, out of mind, and dangerously overused. Yet efforts to reverse decades of neglect are gathering speed. Last week saw the launch of Revive Our Ocean, a new initiative aimed at helping coastal communities create marine protected areas (MPAs) to restore both marine life and local economies. The effort, led by Dynamic Planet with support from National Geographic’s Pristine Seas initiative, comes at a pivotal time. In 2023, countries agreed to a historic treaty to safeguard ocean biodiversity. But of the 100-plus nations that signed, only 21 have ratified the deal, with crucial backers such as the United States notably absent. With a 2030 deadline looming to protect 30% of the oceans, Revive Our Ocean’s founders argue that waiting for governments alone will not be enough. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen that marine protection works,&#8221; says Kristin Rechberger, founder of Dynamic Planet and the force behind the new initiative. &#8220;But the creation of MPAs has been far too slow. To meet 30&#215;30, the world would need to establish over 190,000 new protected areas. That’s why we’re focusing on communities—those who know their waters best.&#8221; Kelp bed in the waters of Arran, Scotland. Credit: Henley Spiers Rechberger&#8217;s optimism is grounded in experience. Over the past decade, Dynamic Planet and Pristine Seas have supported the creation of 29 of the world’s largest marine reserves, covering nearly seven million square kilometers, mostly in remote national waters. Now, attention is shifting closer to shore, where&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/protecting-coastal-waters-may-be-the-best-investment-youve-never-heard-of-says-kristin-rechberger/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Shipbreaking pollutes Türkiye’s coast despite European cleanup efforts</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/shipbreaking-pollutes-turkiyes-coast-despite-european-cleanup-efforts/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/shipbreaking-pollutes-turkiyes-coast-despite-european-cleanup-efforts/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>17 Dec 2024 18:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Lyse MauvaisWouter Massink]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, Mediterranean Sea, and Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Birds, Coastal Ecosystems, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Governance, Health, International Trade, Marine, Marine Mammals, Oceans, Pollution, Public Health, Shipping, Waste, Water Pollution, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[ALIAĞA, Türkiye — Every day, as dusk settles over the Aegean Sea, small vans ferrying workers homeward bustle in and out of Aliağa, a town nestled against lush, forested hills in the western İzmir province of Türkiye, formerly known as Turkey. Stepping out in oil-streaked overalls after a long day, the workers’ scent blends with [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[ALIAĞA, Türkiye — Every day, as dusk settles over the Aegean Sea, small vans ferrying workers homeward bustle in and out of Aliağa, a town nestled against lush, forested hills in the western İzmir province of Türkiye, formerly known as Turkey. Stepping out in oil-streaked overalls after a long day, the workers’ scent blends with the thick industrial haze, a smell alien to outsiders and unnoticed by locals. Since the 1970s, this historic town near the ancient city of Troy, has become one of Türkiye’s prime industrial hubs, home to oil refineries, a liquefied natural gas plant and iron-steel furnaces. These highly polluting industries have helped transform the area into a notorious hotspot of carcinogenic contamination. But another key culprit lies just out of sight, hidden at the bay’s edge: shipbreaking. Aliağa is the world’s fourth destination for decaying oil rigs, container carriers and cruise ships. According to the Brussels-based NGO Shipbreaking Platform, at least 2,224 vessels have been dismantled there over the past 15 years, spewing out billions of tons of scrap metal, along with oil from the guts of rusty tankers, old electric wires, asbestos-based insulants and thousands of liters of bilge and ballast water. Locals know better than to eat the fish caught in Aliağa’s waters, which receive a toxic cocktail of pollution from the shipyards, a fisher and a shipbreaker told Mongabay. “They say even the fish is inedible here because it smells like shipbreaking,” the shipbreaker said. Yet this doesn’t stop people from selling fish&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/shipbreaking-pollutes-turkiyes-coast-despite-european-cleanup-efforts/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia invites Turkish investors to develop tuna farms in Papua</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/indonesia-turkiye-tuna-investment-fish-farm-fisheries-japan/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/indonesia-turkiye-tuna-investment-fish-farm-fisheries-japan/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Jan 2024 09:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Basten Gokkon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Southeast Asia, and Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aquaculture, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Policy, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, Green, Illegal Fishing, Lakes, Marine, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, Saltwater Fish, Sustainability, Trade, and Tuna]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has invited Turkish investors to help develop an offshore tuna farm in the country’s eastern Papua region, which it aims to turn into a major tuna export hub. The move is the latest outreach by Indonesia’s fisheries ministry to other countries to invest in and develop its fisheries potential. Earlier [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has invited Turkish investors to help develop an offshore tuna farm in the country’s eastern Papua region, which it aims to turn into a major tuna export hub. The move is the latest outreach by Indonesia’s fisheries ministry to other countries to invest in and develop its fisheries potential. Earlier in January, the minister made a similar offer to Vietnam to invest in lobster farming. On a recent visit to Türkiye, the Indonesian fisheries minister, Sakti Wahyu Trenggono, said Turkish investment and aquaculture technology could help kick-start tuna farming in the waters of Biak Numfor district in Papua province. The minister spoke at a fish-fattening farm in the Türkiye’s Gulf of İzmir, where various marine fish species, including Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), are held in pens after being captured from the wild and fed to increase their weight. “Some of our territorial waters are habitat for tuna, so we need innovation to increase the productivity of this commodity and ensure its sustainability,&#8221; Trenggono said in a statement published Jan. 24. Indonesian fisheries minister Sakti Wahyu Trenggono visits a tuna farm in the Gulf of İzmir, Türkiye. Image courtesy of the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. At the start of his second term in office, in 2019, President Joko Widodo ordered the fisheries ministry to boost the country’s aquaculture productivity. Indonesia’s tuna fishery is an important source of livelihood for coastal communities in the Southeast Asian nation and a key source of food&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/indonesia-turkiye-tuna-investment-fish-farm-fisheries-japan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-278108</doi>				</item>
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					<title>As climate change hits the Turkish coast, more marine reserves are needed (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/as-climate-change-hits-the-turkish-coast-conservationists-take-action-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Sep 2023 16:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Funda Kök]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, Mediterranean Sea, and Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Commentary, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Seagrass, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Growing up, I lived in Ankara, far away from the coast, but the best time of year for me was always the summer months when I would travel to the south with my family to camp and spend time in nature. We loved enjoying the sea on the Mediterranean coast and I remember how rich [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Growing up, I lived in Ankara, far away from the coast, but the best time of year for me was always the summer months when I would travel to the south with my family to camp and spend time in nature. We loved enjoying the sea on the Mediterranean coast and I remember how rich the biodiversity was, spotting all kinds of fish, seagrass and macroalgae in the crystal-clear water. I was in college the first time I visited Gökova Bay – one of the most beautiful parts of Turkiye’s Turquoise Coast. It was amazing to wake up with the sounds of birds and see small fishing boats early in the morning. I would think to myself how incredible it could be to live here, to be a part of nature. This Mediterranean coastline is one of the Earth’s most precious havens for marine biodiversity. From monk seals to seagrass, sandbar sharks to dusky groupers, there was once so much life in these waters. But, the decline in biodiversity is increasingly visible to our eyes today. The Mediterranean’s marine life is facing many threats, not least from the boiling of its very own home. Funda Kök (left) with 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize winner Zafer Kızılkaya, who is another conservationist active on Turkey’s coast. Photo courtesy of Akdeniz Koruma Derneği. Summer 2023 has seen scientists report record-breaking sea temperatures around the world, bringing home the reality we are living in. Climate change is accelerating at a rate we cannot control, and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/as-climate-change-hits-the-turkish-coast-conservationists-take-action-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-273744</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Meet the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/meet-the-2023-goldman-environmental-prize-winner/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Apr 2023 07:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Brazil, European Union, Finland, Gambia, Global, Indonesia, North Sumatra, South America, Turkey, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Forests, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Hydroelectric Power, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Politics, Protected Areas, Rivers, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Six grassroots environmental activists received the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 24. Known as the &#8220;Green Nobel Prize,&#8221; the Goldman Prize honors environmental activists from the six continental regions. The prize was founded in 1989 by U.S. philanthropists Rhoda and Richard Goldman. This year’s winners include a conservationist who created a new marine protected area [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Six grassroots environmental activists received the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 24. Known as the &#8220;Green Nobel Prize,&#8221; the Goldman Prize honors environmental activists from the six continental regions. The prize was founded in 1989 by U.S. philanthropists Rhoda and Richard Goldman. This year’s winners include a conservationist who created a new marine protected area along the coast of Turkey; a fisherman whose cross-cultural model for restoration is bringing back Finland’s peatlands; a fourth-generation fisherwoman who held a plastic company accountable for pollution on the U.S. Gulf Coast; an Indigenous organizer who launched an international campaign and fended off a mining company from her people&#8217;s land in the Amazon; a leader who helped six Indigenous communities gain legal guardianship of their land in Sumatra; and a Gambian organizer whose legal actions set a precedent to hold U.K. mining companies responsible for environmental damage caused by their subsidiaries in other countries. “Now that the world has awakened to acute environmental crises like climate change, fossil fuel extraction, and pollution of our air and water, we are much more aware of our connections to each other and to all life on the planet &#8230; our fates, are all intertwined.” said John Goldman, president of the Goldman Environmental Foundation. The winners will be honored in a ceremony at the San Francisco Opera House on April 24, at 5:30 p.m. PDT, hosted by Outdoor Afro founder Rue Mapp, with musical guest Aloe Blacc. The program will be livestreamed on the Goldman Prize&#8217;s YouTube channel. Here&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/meet-the-2023-goldman-environmental-prize-winner/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-267793</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/the-eu-banned-russian-wood-pellet-imports-south-korea-took-them-all/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jan 2023 22:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[European Union, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Bioenergy, Business, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Controversial, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Emission Reduction, Energy, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Carbon, Forest Loss, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Globalization, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Logging, Mitigation, Nature-based climate solutions, Politics, Renewable Energy, Solutions, Timber, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last July, as the Ukraine war raged, the EU barred all Russian woody biomass imports; even as South Korea took in Russia’s supply. Illicit woody biomass may also still be flowing to the EU from Turkey, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite European countries becoming ever more reliant on woody biomass for energy generation, the European Union last July chose to ban the import of wood pellets from Russia during a fifth round of economic sanctions tied to the unprovoked war with Ukraine. As a result, South Korea — which is in the process of accelerating its energy transition from coal burning to wood pellets — found itself in a geopolitical quandary that also offered a domestic energy-making opportunity.  Not wanting to alienate either Russia or Western allies aligned with Ukraine, South Korea has reportedly opted to ignore the ongoing war and take advantage of the entire surplus of Russian wood pellets on the open market. Since late July 2022, South Korea has been the exclusive destination for Russian produced pellets, tripling its imports in November alone to 65,000 tons, according to a report in late December by LesProm, a European timber holding and wood-products conglomerate. Through November of last year, South Korea paid $69 million to Russia for 377,000 tons of wood pellets — double what it imported from Russia in 2021. Forest advocates in Asia, Europe and the United States are livid at South Korea’s actions, noting that Russian imports now make up 15% of South Korea’s total wood pellet supply. They also say that South Korea is paying little attention to third-party certification programs that would help ensure that wood pellet supplies are not contributing to net deforestation and biodiversity loss in Russia. “South Korea, taking advantage of market&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/01/the-eu-banned-russian-wood-pellet-imports-south-korea-took-them-all/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Protecting global forests with a limited budget? New study shows where and when to start</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/protecting-global-forests-with-a-limited-budget-new-study-shows-where-and-when-to-start/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Aug 2022 19:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Central America, Global, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, South America, Southeast Asia, and Turkey]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forests, Green, Plants, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Money for conservation is limited, and deciding how to prioritize spending raises questions not only about where to channel resources but also when and in what order. Listen to an audio reading of this article here: In a newly published study in Nature, researchers used modeling to figure out when and where to protect forests [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Money for conservation is limited, and deciding how to prioritize spending raises questions not only about where to channel resources but also when and in what order. Listen to an audio reading of this article here: In a newly published study in Nature, researchers used modeling to figure out when and where to protect forests to “get the most bang for our buck,” said lead author Ian Luby. In this case, that “bang” is the maximum number of additional plant species protected over a 50-year period, assuming a $1 billion per year budget. “You can make a big difference in conserving our species with relatively modest investment by investing wisely,” Luby, an economist with the U.S. Geological Survey, told Mongabay. The greatest return on investment, they concluded, fell mostly within Melanesia, South and Southeast Asia, the Anatolian peninsula (primarily in Turkey), northern South America and Central America. Among 458 forest ecoregions (based on the global terrestrial ecoregions as defined by The Nature Conservancy), some of the highest-priority areas for forest conservation were in and around New Guinea, including the rainforests of the Louisiade Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, the Huon Peninsula, and southeastern Papua New Guinea. New Guinea has the highest plant diversity of any island on Earth, according to a 2020 study, with about four times the number of plant species found across all of North America. “If we don&#8217;t [protect] these places now,” Luby added, “we&#8217;re going to regret it later.” A farmer in Malaita, Solomon Islands. These islands&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/protecting-global-forests-with-a-limited-budget-new-study-shows-where-and-when-to-start/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-259803</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Turkey’s authoritarian development ignores planetary boundaries</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/turkeys-authoritarian-development-ignores-planetary-boundaries/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/turkeys-authoritarian-development-ignores-planetary-boundaries/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Jul 2022 20:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Clément Girardot]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Turkey]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Cities, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Environment, Environmental Law, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Impact Of Climate Change, Infrastructure, Politics, Pollution, Regulations, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environmental regulation runs up against political roadblocks in many nations, but the trend is especially strong in authoritarian countries like Turkey, where weak laws, lack of transparency, and repression are rife.]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Republic of Turkey isn’t quite yet a century old, having emerged from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire on October 29, 1923. The country’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — a military leader during World War I and the nation’s subsequent War of Independence — is well-known for his staunch secularist views and policies. Heavily influenced by the French enlightenment, Atatürk set out to transform a poor agrarian country into a developed nation through industrialization and modernization. Countless leaders and parties have taken turns governing since his death in 1938, but catching up with the West has remained a top priority for most Turkish statesmen. In power for the past two decades, current president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party — known as the AKP in Turkish — are no exception. While the AKP has broken away from Atatürk’s secular legacy (with the party’s elite rooted deeply in Islam), Turkey’s dedication to unbridled development has remained relentless. Not surprisingly, when it comes to the environment, Erdoğan’s party has fully embraced neoliberal ideology and set rapid economic growth as a chief goal. “The emphasis of the AKP regime has always been on growth figures; we can even call it ‘growth fetishism.’” Within that framework, “it&#8217;s very easy to forget or undermine the likely social and ecological side effects,” Fikret Ataman, a professor of economics at the Bosphorus University in Istanbul, told Mongabay. The Istanbul Çağlayan Justice Palace, a courthouse inaugurated in 2011. The billboard claims the building is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/turkeys-authoritarian-development-ignores-planetary-boundaries/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-258448</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Holy loach! Fish missing for decades rediscovered in Turkey’s Batman River</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/holy-loach-fish-missing-for-decades-rediscovered-in-turkeys-batman-river/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/holy-loach-fish-missing-for-decades-rediscovered-in-turkeys-batman-river/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Dec 2021 14:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Dams, Environment, Fish, Freshwater Fish, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Rediscovered Species, Species, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[For about a decade, ichthyologist Cüneyt Kaya had made it a quest to search for the critically endangered Batman River loach (Paraschistura chrysicristinae), a tiny, orange-and-brown-striped freshwater fish once found in the Batman and Ambar rivers in Turkey. But no one had spotted the fish since 1974, leading to speculation that the species had gone [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For about a decade, ichthyologist Cüneyt Kaya had made it a quest to search for the critically endangered Batman River loach (Paraschistura chrysicristinae), a tiny, orange-and-brown-striped freshwater fish once found in the Batman and Ambar rivers in Turkey. But no one had spotted the fish since 1974, leading to speculation that the species had gone extinct. But on Oct. 16, Kaya and his colleague, Münevver Oral, caught an unfamiliar fish in their net while on a research trip to look for another species in the upper Batman River in eastern Turkey. “We came out of the water and I remember he [Kaya] was very excited,” Oral, a geneticist and research fellow at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, told Mongabay in a joint interview with Kaya. “He opened his laptop and when he saw the original drawing [of the species], he was sure this species was Paraschistura chrysicristinae.” The Batman River loach (Paraschistura chrysicristinae) is a tiny, orange-and-brown-striped freshwater fish that is considered to be critically endangered. Image courtesy of Re:wild. “It was a great feeling,” said Kaya, an associate professor at the same university, “because this fish was in the 10 most wanted fish species in the world.” Very little known about the Batman River loach. Shortly after the first specimens were collected in the 1970s, the species seemed to disappear, leaving a gaping hole in the scientific understanding of the species. In 2021, wildlife NGOs Shoal and Re:wild listed the Batman River loach as one of the 10 most wanted&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/holy-loach-fish-missing-for-decades-rediscovered-in-turkeys-batman-river/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-250935</doi>				</item>
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					<title>As the rest of world tackles plastics disposal, the U.S. resists</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/as-the-rest-of-world-tackles-plastics-disposal-the-u-s-resists/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 May 2021 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Charles Pekow]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons, Global Environmental Impacts of US Policy, Industry and People, and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Canada, China, Global, Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, United States, and Vietnam]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Developing Countries, Economics, Environment, Environmental Policy, Ethics, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Health, International Trade, Land Use Change, Microplastics, Oceans, Planetary Health, Plastic, Politics, Pollution, Sea Turtles, Trade, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[The United Nations Basel Convention regulates international transport of hazardous waste, which in 2021 expanded to include plastics. But the U.S. has never fully implemented the agreement; Biden may change that. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[For the first time ever, international shipments of plastic waste came under global control this year. That’s because disposable plastic — a major pollutant of the world’s waters and atmosphere, fodder for incinerators, occupier of overflowing landfills, and material for costly recycling — was added to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal. The convention is a United Nations treaty aimed at managing the adulterating of lands and seas with novel polluting entities, but how effectively this international protocol will work to control plastics disposal remains to be seen. For nearly three decades, the Basel Convention has regulated international transport of hazardous materials, primarily so wealthy companies couldn&#8217;t dump their dangerous garbage on less-developed ones. Garbage in Pattaya, Thailand. Major global recipients of plastic waste included Turkey, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Mexico. Image by Leonid Danilov via Pexels. The agreement was formulated in 1989, and took effect in 1992, and initially covered toxic, poisonous, explosive, corrosive, flammable, ecotoxic and infectious wastes, including chemicals such as arsenic, mercury and cadmium; lead and other metals; copper including ash; electronics; cathode-ray and other glass tubes; and now has been extended to encompass plastics. (The Basel Convention does not deal with nuclear waste, which is instead regulated by the International Atomic Energy Agency.) The Basel Convention partially addresses one of nine critical planetary boundaries — scientifically estimated limits within which humanity can continue to thrive, but which, if exceeded, could threaten civilization, humanity, and much of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/as-the-rest-of-world-tackles-plastics-disposal-the-u-s-resists/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-242711</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Report: Turkish carrier is ‘poacher’s airline of choice’ for parrot trade</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/report-turkish-carrier-is-poachers-airline-of-choice-for-parrot-trade/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Feb 2019 09:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Middle East, and Turkey]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Green, Illegal Trade, Parrots, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wildlife traffickers rely heavily on airlines to smuggle endangered species. Now, in a recent report, the U.K.-based charity World Animal Protection (WAP) has named Turkish Airlines as one of the main airlines enabling the illegal trade in African grey parrots, one of the most trafficked birds in the world. WAP also started an online campaign, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wildlife traffickers rely heavily on airlines to smuggle endangered species. Now, in a recent report, the U.K.-based charity World Animal Protection (WAP) has named Turkish Airlines as one of the main airlines enabling the illegal trade in African grey parrots, one of the most trafficked birds in the world. WAP also started an online campaign, “Wildlife. Not pets.”, demanding that Turkish Airlines stop transporting all birds “until it’s sure African grey parrots and other protected species aren’t being flown on its planes.” In response, Turkish Airlines on Feb. 13 issued a global embargo on the transportation of African grey parrots on any of its planes, according to a press release by WAP. “Though there is a long way to go, the embargo on African grey parrots is a promising first step,” the press release said. “We’re pleased the company responded quickly to our concerns and look forward to working together to improve welfare for wildlife.” African grey parrots, which include two endangered species, the grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) and Timneh parrot (P. timneh), are extremely popular in the international pet trade. Famed for their mimicry, the parrots are one of the world’s most illegally trafficked birds, and their capture from the wild has led to catastrophic population declines across their range. In 2016, the grey parrots were included in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which means that all international commercial trade in wild-caught African grey parrots is prohibited. Calling Turkish&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/report-turkish-carrier-is-poachers-airline-of-choice-for-parrot-trade/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Turkey’s wild bears migrate for food; but some bears prefer garbage dumps</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/07/turkeys-wild-bears-migrate-for-food-but-some-bears-prefer-garbage-dumps/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Jul 2016 08:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Bears, Biodiversity, Conflict, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Mammals, Migration, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[Turkey’s brown bears migrate long distances in search of food, a new study has found. This is the first time that migration has been observed in brown bears, co-author Çağan Şekercioğlu of the University of Utah, told Mongabay. “We looked through the literature extensively and could not find any evidence of this seen before in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Turkey’s brown bears migrate long distances in search of food, a new study has found. This is the first time that migration has been observed in brown bears, co-author Çağan Şekercioğlu of the University of Utah, told Mongabay. “We looked through the literature extensively and could not find any evidence of this seen before in brown bears.” Şekercioğlu and his team tagged 16 adult brown bears around the city of Sarıkamış, which lies close to the Sarıkamış Forest Allahuekber Mountains National Park (SAMNP), and followed their movements using GPS receivers. Six of the bears migrated seasonally, the team found. A mother bear and her two cubs stop for a drink in Sarıkamış Forest, eastern Turkey. Photo credit: camera trap, KuzeyDoğa Society Between the months of September and November each year, the bears moved from Sarıkamış Forest, a Scots pine forest with few nuts or fruits in the understory, to rich, oak forests located far away. They would stock up on food, then return to Sarıkamış before hibernation, the team observed. These migrations lasted between 23 and 72 days during which the bears covered between 62 to 155 miles, according to the study published in the Journal of Zoology. “Other bear species do migrate, most notably polar bears. But no one had ever seen migration in brown bears before,” co-author Mark Chynoweth, also from the University of Utah, said in a statement. The bears&#8217; GPS data revealed an additional surprise: city food was altering the lifestyle of Turkey’s migratory wild bears. Instead of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/07/turkeys-wild-bears-migrate-for-food-but-some-bears-prefer-garbage-dumps/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-187405</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Turkish government bears down on rural resistance to mining and hydro projects</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/turkish-government-bears-down-on-rural-resistance-to-mining-and-hydro-projects/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/turkish-government-bears-down-on-rural-resistance-to-mining-and-hydro-projects/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Jun 2015 14:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jennifer Hattam]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Europe, and Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Dams, Endangered Environmentalists, Environment, Green, Hydroelectric Power, Mining, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Villagers in the country&#8217;s lush Black Sea region face police force, legal hurdles, and more subtle means of suppression in their fight to protect the environment. The Fol Creek Valley outside of Trabzon, Turkey. Residents are fighting plans to build a cement factory, several rock quarries, a gold mine, and three hydropower plants in the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Villagers in the country&#8217;s lush Black Sea region face police force, legal hurdles, and more subtle means of suppression in their fight to protect the environment. The Fol Creek Valley outside of Trabzon, Turkey. Residents are fighting plans to build a cement factory, several rock quarries, a gold mine, and three hydropower plants in the area. Photo: Jennifer Hattam. The Fol Creek Valley rises steeply from Turkey&#8217;s Black Sea shoreline, the grey concrete of the coastal cities quickly giving way to lush green hills dotted with homes, barns, and the occasional twin spires of a small mosque. In the summer months, villagers here lead their livestock up through the pine-forest-covered mountains to graze in the yayla, or highland pastures. &#8220;The cows here graze on 400 different types of plants, which gives the butter made from their milk a special taste and aroma. Even people in Istanbul seek it out,&#8221; Pekir Uzun told mongabay.com. A spokesman for the Tonya Environmental Platform, Uzun works as a furniture maker in the valley&#8217;s largest town, Tonya, home to about 7,000 people in addition to the 8,000 or so living in the surrounding rural villages. In February, 250 of these residents joined counterparts from around the Black Sea to march the 800 kilometers (500 miles) to the Turkish capital city of Ankara to protest environmentally damaging development in the region. In the Tonya area, this includes plans to build a cement factory, several rock quarries, a gold mine, and three hydropower plants. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/turkish-government-bears-down-on-rural-resistance-to-mining-and-hydro-projects/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-62844</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New solidarity in struggle to protect Turkey&#8217;s &#8216;life spaces&#8217;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/new-solidarity-in-struggle-to-protect-turkeys-life-spaces/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Jun 2015 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jennifer Hattam]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Endangered Environmentalists]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Europe, and Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Dams, Environment, Forests, Green, Hydroelectric Power, Mining, and Rivers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Emerging regional and national networks seek to build connections between local communities and provide support to their fights against dams, mines, and other environmental threats. An anti-mining protest in the mountain town of Artvin, Turkey. Photo: Green Artvin Association. Neşe Karahan pointed out the car window as it wound its way through a snow-covered pine [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Emerging regional and national networks seek to build connections between local communities and provide support to their fights against dams, mines, and other environmental threats. An anti-mining protest in the mountain town of Artvin, Turkey. Photo: Green Artvin Association. Neşe Karahan pointed out the car window as it wound its way through a snow-covered pine forest on a chilly morning this April. &#8220;Over there, that&#8217;s the mining reserve; on the other side of the hill, that&#8217;s the ski area,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s such a ridiculous thing: This same place is where our water comes from, where we go picnicking in nature — and a mining area.&#8221; Karahan brings out a map to highlight the absurdity: Other than the ski resort, nearly all of this mountainous region in far eastern Turkey lies within the overlapping boundaries of both an area designated for mining and an area designated for tourism. &#8220;Walking in these mountains is so wonderful, it&#8217;s like walking on a soft carpet. We have 40 different kinds of orchids in this area, and all five of the rhododendron varieties found in Turkey. When the rhododendrons bloom, they give off such a beautiful smell — and the bees that feed on them make delicious honey,&#8221; Karahan, a bakery owner in the nearby town of Artvin and the tireless president of the Green Artvin Association, told mongabay.com. She was quick to point out, proudly, that the Artvin area is home to Turkey&#8217;s first and only UNESCO-recognized biosphere reserve, the Camili Biosphere Reserve.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/new-solidarity-in-struggle-to-protect-turkeys-life-spaces/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-62855</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Featured documentary: Damocracy, highlighting the battles over the Belo Monte and Ilisu dams</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/featured-documentary-damocracy-highlighting-the-battles-over-the-belo-monte-and-ilisu-dams/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Apr 2013 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Brazil, Latin America, South America, and Turkey]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Dams, Energy, Environment, Governance, Green, Greenwashing, History, Human Rights, Hydroelectric Power, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Politics, Rivers, and Videos]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new short documentary, Damocracy, highlights the battles over monster dam projects imperiling local people and wild rivers. Examining the Belo Monte dam in Brazil and the Ilisu dam in Turkey, the documentary argues that such hydroelectric projects cannot be deemed &#8220;green&#8221; energy as they overturn lives, livelihoods, and ecosystems. Developing countries are turning to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new short documentary, Damocracy, highlights the battles over monster dam projects imperiling local people and wild rivers. Examining the Belo Monte dam in Brazil and the Ilisu dam in Turkey, the documentary argues that such hydroelectric projects cannot be deemed &#8220;green&#8221; energy as they overturn lives, livelihoods, and ecosystems. Developing countries are turning to massive dam projects worldwide&#8212;over 150 dams alone are planned in the Amazon alone&#8212;creating conflicts between people who depend on rivers and governments that want cheap energy, often to fuel large-scale extractive industries. Such projects, often forced on communities, raise the question of development for whom? Trailer of new short documentary Damocracy. Full documentary Damocracy.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/featured-documentary-damocracy-highlighting-the-battles-over-the-belo-monte-and-ilisu-dams/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29129</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Iraqi who is bringing back the Garden of Eden wins top environment award</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/iraqi-who-is-bringing-back-the-garden-of-eden-wins-top-environment-award/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/iraqi-who-is-bringing-back-the-garden-of-eden-wins-top-environment-award/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Apr 2013 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Vidal]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Iraq, Middle East, Syria, and Turkey]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conflict, Dams, Energy, Environment, Environmental Heroes, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Hydroelectric Power, Pollution, Prizes, War, Water, Water Scarcity, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[The vast Mesoptomian marshes in southern Iraq were said to be the site of the original Garden of Eden. On their fringes have risen and fallen 12,000 years of Sumerian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian and Arab civilizations. Organized farming is thought to have begun here, as did the first cities and writing. In legend, Gilgamesh fell [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The vast Mesoptomian marshes in southern Iraq were said to be the site of the original Garden of Eden. On their fringes have risen and fallen 12,000 years of Sumerian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian and Arab civilizations. Organized farming is thought to have begun here, as did the first cities and writing. In legend, Gilgamesh fell asleep on the water side and let slip from his fingers the plant of eternal youth. Abraham was said to have been born here and explorers like Sir Wilfred Thesiger made their name here. But when Iraqi-born engineer Azzam Alwash returned in 2003 after 25 years away, he found a devastated land. Instead of the vast and unique freshwater world, all that remained was an arid, polluted, dried-out wilderness where reeds did not grow, no one lived and nothing was farmed. Saddam Hussein had drained thousands of square kilometers of the marshland that had once been fed by the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in an effort to punish the people who lived there. It was an ecological and cultural disaster that the UN ranked alongside the destruction of the Aral sea or the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Alwash is now being honored with a $150,000 Goldman prize&#8212;the equivalent of a &#8220;green oscar&#8221; for environmental activism&#8212;for his part in restoring the ecological gems to much of their former glory. Marsh Arabs poling a traditional mashoof in the marshes of southern Iraq. Photograph slightly enhanced by contributor. April 2003. Photo by: Hassan Janali, U.S. Army Corps&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/iraqi-who-is-bringing-back-the-garden-of-eden-wins-top-environment-award/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29199</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Scientist: releasing invasive birds in Turkey to eat ticks will backfire</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/02/scientist-releasing-invasive-birds-in-turkey-to-eat-ticks-will-backfire/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/02/scientist-releasing-invasive-birds-in-turkey-to-eat-ticks-will-backfire/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>04 Feb 2013 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Thomas Handley]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, Middle East, and Turkey]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Arachnids, Birds, Conservation, Diseases, Environment, Green, Invasive Species, Strange, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Helmeted guineafowl in native habitat in Pilanesberg Reserve, South Africa. Photo courtesy of Çağan Şekercioğlu. As Turkey raises and releases thousands of non-native helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) to eat ticks that carry the deadly Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, new research suggests guineafowl actually eat few ticks, carry the parasites on their feathers, and further spread [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Helmeted guineafowl in native habitat in Pilanesberg Reserve, South Africa. Photo courtesy of Çağan Şekercioğlu. As Turkey raises and releases thousands of non-native helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) to eat ticks that carry the deadly Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, new research suggests guineafowl actually eat few ticks, carry the parasites on their feathers, and further spread the disease. &#8220;It took me only three hours of literature search and quick scan of the abstracts of some 60 papers in the Web of Science to see that guineafowl hardly ate any ticks in their environment and in fact carried many more,&#8221; Çağan Şekercioğlu, assistant professor of biology at the University of Utah, told mongabay.com. In his new paper, the third-most downloaded in the journal Trends in Parasitology, Şekercioğlu explains that the idea guineafowl eat Hyolomma marginatum ticks and control the disease is based on evidence from a 1992 study suggesting that birds could control ticks that carry Lyme disease in the United States. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is a tick-borne virus, which according to statistics compiled by Turkey&#8217;s government has infected 6,392 people and killed 322 between 2002 and May 2012. With cases of the disease dropping in 2011, some officials proclaimed the guineafowl program a success. However, wild ground-feeding birds serve as hosts for Hyalomma marginatum ticks, the most efficient and common vectors of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, magnify the virus, and help to transmit the disease. &#8220;They should stop these introductions immediately because there is a risk they may be doing the opposite&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/02/scientist-releasing-invasive-birds-in-turkey-to-eat-ticks-will-backfire/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29637</doi>				</item>
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					<title>China and India plan 818 new coal plants</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/china-and-india-plan-818-new-coal-plants/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/china-and-india-plan-818-new-coal-plants/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Nov 2012 13:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, China, India, Indonesia, North America, Russia, Southeast Asia, Turkey, United States, and Vietnam]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels, and Green]]>
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							<![CDATA[Surface coal mining in Bihar, India. Around 70-80 percent of India&#8217;s power is currently provided by coal. Even as the clamor to reduce greenhouse gas emissions reaches a new high&#8212;echoed recently by such staid institutions as the World Bank and the International Energy Agency (IEA)&#8212;a new analysis by the World Resources Institute (WRI) finds that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Surface coal mining in Bihar, India. Around 70-80 percent of India&#8217;s power is currently provided by coal. Even as the clamor to reduce greenhouse gas emissions reaches a new high&#8212;echoed recently by such staid institutions as the World Bank and the International Energy Agency (IEA)&#8212;a new analysis by the World Resources Institute (WRI) finds that 818 new coal-fired plants are under proposal in China and India. In all 1,199 new coal-fired plants are currently planned worldwide, according to the report, totaling 1.4 million megawatts of energy. According to the report 59 nations are currently proposing to build new coal plants. This includes 49 new coal plants proposed in Turkey, 48 in Russia, 36 in the U.S., 30 in Vietnam, and 17 in Indonesia. But India has by far proposed the most new coal-fired power plants: 455. While China, already the world&#8217;s biggest burner of coal, has proposed 363 new plants. &#8220;Not all of these projects will necessarily be approved and developed&#8212;the report only looks at proposed new plants. However, this research shows a significant&#8212;and troubling&#8212;interest in coal development globally,&#8221; writes Ailun Yang with the WRI in a blog. Coal is the world&#8217;s most carbon-intensive energy source. It has been estimated that currently around a third of all greenhouse gas emissions stem from the combustion of coal alone. In addition to its carbon emissions, coal also spreads around 20 toxic chemicals into the environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the use of coal shortens a million lives around the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/china-and-india-plan-818-new-coal-plants/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29996</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Turkey&#8217;s rich biodiversity at risk</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/turkeys-rich-biodiversity-at-risk/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Mar 2012 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Bears, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Birding, Birds, Conservation, Dams, Developing Countries, Development, Ecological Beauty, Ecotourism, Education, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Ethics, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Hydroelectric Power, In-situ Conservation, Mammals, Migration, Mining, Parks, Photos, Politics, Protected Areas, Temperate Forests, Tourism, Water, Water Scarcity, Wildlife, and Wolves]]>
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							<![CDATA[Turkey&#8217;s stunning landscapes and wildlife are under threat due to government ambivalence. Here, the sun sets outside Igdir, Turkey. Photo by: Cagan Sekercioglu. Turkey: the splendor of the Hagia Sophia, the ruins of Ephesus, and the bizarre caves of the Cappadocia. For foreign travelers, Turkey is a nation of cultural, religious, and historic wonders: a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Turkey&#8217;s stunning landscapes and wildlife are under threat due to government ambivalence. Here, the sun sets outside Igdir, Turkey. Photo by: Cagan Sekercioglu. Turkey: the splendor of the Hagia Sophia, the ruins of Ephesus, and the bizarre caves of the Cappadocia. For foreign travelers, Turkey is a nation of cultural, religious, and historic wonders: a place where cultures have met, clashed, and co-created. However, Turkey has another wealth that is far less known: biodiversity. Of the globe&#8217;s 34 biodiversity hotspots, Turkey is almost entirely covered by three: the Caucasus, the Irano-Anatolian, and the Mediterranean. Despite its wild wealth, conservation is not a priority in Turkey and recent papers in Science and Biological Conservation warn that the current development plans in the country, which rarely take the environment into account, are imperiling its species and ecosystems. &#8220;The current &#8216;developmentalist obsession,&#8217; particularly regarding water use, threatens to eliminate much of what remains, while forcing large-scale migration from rural areas to the cities. According to current plans, Turkey&#8217;s rivers and streams will be dammed with almost 4,000 dams, diversions, and hydroelectric power plants for power, irrigation, and drinking water by 2023,&#8221; the authors write, adding that other threats include urbanization, wetland-draining, and poaching. Local woman from eastern Turkey. Photo by: Cagan Sekercioglu. Turkey is particularly rich in plants: with over 9,000 recorded to date, a third of them are found only in Turkey. Amphibians and reptiles are also highly diverse with 150 species to date. And Turkey, even now, still retains some startling&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/turkeys-rich-biodiversity-at-risk/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-31115</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Top forest policies recognized</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/top-forest-policies-recognized/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Mar 2011 19:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Bhutan, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Finland, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Norway, Rwanda, Switzerland, Turkey, United States, and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Green, Law, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[19 forest policies have been nominated for an award by the World Future Council, a global think tank. The policies come from 16 countries: Bhutan, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Finland, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Norway, Rwanda, Switzerland, Turkey, the United States of America and Vietnam. Nominations were made by various international organizations, including UN [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[19 forest policies have been nominated for an award by the World Future Council, a global think tank. The policies come from 16 countries: Bhutan, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Finland, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Norway, Rwanda, Switzerland, Turkey, the United States of America and Vietnam. Nominations were made by various international organizations, including UN agencies. The contest aims to raise awareness of the policies and accelerate policy action. &#8220;Winners will represent the most inspiring, innovative and influential forest policies which contribute to the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests for the benefit of current and future generations,&#8221; said the World Future Council in a statement. The awards will be announced September 21. The jury includes Jan McAlpine, Director, United Nations Forum on Forests; Professor Marie Claire Cordonier Segger, Director, Center for International Sustainable Development Law; Jakob von Uexkull, Chair, World Future Council and Right Livelihood Award; Tewolde Berhan Egziabher, Director General, Environmental Protection Authority, Ethiopia; and Pauline Tangiora, Maori elder from the Rongomaiwahine tribe, among others. It was not immediately clear whether policy enforcement will be a factor in determining the winner. Several of the recognized forest policies have been undermined by lack of enforcement. Nepal, India, and Brazil have seen substantial deforestation since their nominated policies were enacted.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/top-forest-policies-recognized/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32781</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Organizations unite against plan to open Turkey&#8217;s protected areas to development</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/02/organizations-unite-against-plan-to-open-turkeys-protected-areas-to-development/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Feb 2011 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Dams, Development, Environment, Governance, Green, Hydroelectric Power, Parks, Politics, and Protected Areas]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last week nearly 200 Turkish organizations banded together to protest a draft law by the government to open up Turkey&#8217;s protected areas to development. A combination of environmental, health, education, arts and culture, tourism, and human rights groups joined outside the Turkish Parliament with signs stating, &#8216;We Won&#8217;t Give You Anatolia&#8217;, another name for the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last week nearly 200 Turkish organizations banded together to protest a draft law by the government to open up Turkey&#8217;s protected areas to development. A combination of environmental, health, education, arts and culture, tourism, and human rights groups joined outside the Turkish Parliament with signs stating, &#8216;We Won&#8217;t Give You Anatolia&#8217;, another name for the region. According to opponents the &#8216;Nature and Biodiversity Conservation&#8217; bill would do the opposite of what its name suggests, opening even threatened habitats to large development projects, such as hydro-electric power. Pervin Çoban Savran, leader of a Turkish nomadic tribe known as the Sarıkeçili, stated at the protest: &#8220;If laws will not protect nature, people will. They will claim their roots, and nature, at all costs. Our rulers should know this. […] This bill should be withdrawn as soon as possible and measures to protect the rich nature of Anatolia should be put into practice. This is what the Anatolian people want.&#8221; Turkey has over 140 designated protected areas, including 33 National Parks. Related articles Dirt road converted into artificial island for birds in Eastern Turkey (05/26/2009) A dirt road that had bisected Lake Kuyucuk in Turkey’s Kars Province has been turned into an island for birds to breed safely away from livestock, foxes, and humans. Converted from a road into island in only two months, the 200 meter-long artificial island is the first of its kind in Eastern Anatolia. Turkey ignores bluefin tuna quotas, further imperiling critically-endangered species (05/12/2009) A few weeks into the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/02/organizations-unite-against-plan-to-open-turkeys-protected-areas-to-development/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-33022</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Dirt road converted into artificial island for birds in Eastern Turkey</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/05/dirt-road-converted-into-artificial-island-for-birds-in-eastern-turkey/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 May 2009 23:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Conservation, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, In-situ Conservation, Protected Areas, Roads, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A dirt road that had bisected Lake Kuyucuk in Turkey’s Kars Province has been turned into an island for birds to breed safely away from livestock, foxes, and humans. Converted from a road into island in only two months, the 200 meter-long artificial island is the first of its kind in Eastern Anatolia. “In time, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A dirt road that had bisected Lake Kuyucuk in Turkey’s Kars Province has been turned into an island for birds to breed safely away from livestock, foxes, and humans. Converted from a road into island in only two months, the 200 meter-long artificial island is the first of its kind in Eastern Anatolia. “In time, we expect to have a robust waterbird colony, hopefully reminiscent of the breeding colony of Manyas Bird Paradise in western Turkey. The island and its birds will attract more nature tourists and will increase local income at Kuyucuk, Duraklı and Carcıoğlu villages around the lake,” said Dr. Çağan Şekercioğlu, Stanford University conservation ecologist and president of KuzeyDoğa Society which oversaw many of the aspects of the project. The 200 meter-long island will provide critical habitat for nesting birds. Photo courtesy of Şekercioğlu. The island’s creation also restored the lake to its natural state by reconnecting the southern and northern section, which the road had bisected. On May 13th the road officially became an island; four days later construction was completed. The speed and inexpensive nature of the artificial island could be a model for future conservation projects. The island’s construction was based on ecological principles and contemporary bird island construction methodology. Its construction was overseen by Şekercioğlu, the KuzeyDoğa Society team, and wetland restoration expert Dr. Sean Anderson of California State University Channel Islands. The lake had already been established as a protected area after a request from the Kars Directorate of Environment and Forestry&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2009/05/dirt-road-converted-into-artificial-island-for-birds-in-eastern-turkey/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-36716</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Turkey ignores bluefin tuna quotas, further imperiling critically-endangered species</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/05/turkey-ignores-bluefin-tuna-quotas-further-imperiling-critically-endangered-species/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 May 2009 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Fish, Fishing, Green, In-situ Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[A few weeks into the bluefin tuna fishing season and Turkey has decided to go it alone. Breaking international agreements, the Turkish government has announced that it will ignore agreed-upon bluefin tuna quotas. The news is not good for the survival of the critically-endangered fish species, since Turkey operates the largest Mediterranean fleet for bluefin [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A few weeks into the bluefin tuna fishing season and Turkey has decided to go it alone. Breaking international agreements, the Turkish government has announced that it will ignore agreed-upon bluefin tuna quotas. The news is not good for the survival of the critically-endangered fish species, since Turkey operates the largest Mediterranean fleet for bluefin tuna. “Ignoring quota limits means that Turkey will simply bring an end to the bluefin tuna business even faster and once and for all, through the commercial extinction of the species,” said Banu Dokmecibasi, Greenpeace Mediterranean Oceans Campaigner, in Turkey. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) currently manages the bluefin tuna. The group has been heavily criticized for mismanaging the population and long-ignoring warnings from scientists. An independent performance review of ICCAT blasted the group in September 2008, calling it an “international disgrace”. While scientists have been advising ICCAT since 2006 that the organization must lower the annual quota to under 15,000 tons, ICCAT has yet to heed the advice. In 2007, 61,100 tons of bluefin tuna were caught—twice the quota set by ICCAT and four times the size recommended by scientists. The quota for this season is 47 percent above scientists’ recommendations, although ICCAT has touted it as a recovery plan. However, Turkey’s announcement places this quota in jeopardy. “The scientific advice shows that this so-called recovery plan would be better called a fisheries suicide pact,” said François Provost, Greenpeace International Oceans Campaigner. ”Turkey, and all other fishing nations including&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2009/05/turkey-ignores-bluefin-tuna-quotas-further-imperiling-critically-endangered-species/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-36755</doi>				</item>
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					<title>12 fish species go extinct in lake near Istanbul</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/09/12-fish-species-go-extinct-in-lake-near-istanbul/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Sep 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Fish, Green, Lakes, Pollution, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[12 fish species go extinct in lake near Istanbul 12 fish species go extinct in lake near Istanbul Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com September 24, 2008 Turkey has lost twelve species of fish to pollution in Lake Sapanca. Lake Sapanca used to be one of Turkey&#8217;s most bio-diverse lakes. A decade ago the lake&#8217;s water was pristine [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[12 fish species go extinct in lake near Istanbul 12 fish species go extinct in lake near Istanbul Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com September 24, 2008 Turkey has lost twelve species of fish to pollution in Lake Sapanca. Lake Sapanca used to be one of Turkey&#8217;s most bio-diverse lakes. A decade ago the lake&#8217;s water was pristine enough to be pumped directly to Istanbul for citizen use, but due to rising pollution it no longer serves as a source for the city water. Studies undertaken by Dr. Meric Albay, from Istanbul University Faculty of Fisheries, found that along with losing twelve species of, two more were endangered: the esox and the catfish. Albay cites a number of reasons for the extinctions, but states that pollution and a rise in the water&#8217;s salt content were the leading factors. In addition overfishing, illegal fishing, and habitat destruction have taken an toll on the lake&#8217;s wildlife. Sedat Bicakci, Chairman of the Sakarya Fishermen&#8217;s Association, told Today Zaman that due to habitat destruction &#8220;the fish cannot find a place to leave their eggs.&#8221; Development has spread around Lake Sapanca&#8217;s shore. &#8220;Sports facilities were built on the area where the fish used to reproduce,&#8221; Bicakci says, &#8220;so long as this construction continues, no fish will be left in Lake Sapanca.&#8221; The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey has announced that it will spend 2 million YTL (1.6 million dollars) to detect pollutants present in the lake and mitigate future pollution. The Council also applied to the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/09/12-fish-species-go-extinct-in-lake-near-istanbul/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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