Forestry and Water Affairs Ministry

The pyrenean chamois, which have been taken under protection by the Forestry and Water Affairs Ministry, are being monitored by Nature Protection and National Parks personnel while searching for food on snowy ground in the eastern province of Erzurum's Tercan district.

The Forestry and Water Affairs Ministry has launched new efforts to prevent hunters from illegally harming wildlife.

The Nature Conservation and National Parks Directorate, General Directorate of Forests, gendarmerie, police, village heads and honorary hunting inspectors have joined hands to support an effective fight against illegal hunters.

More than 15,500 public personnel in Turkey have been dismissed from their posts with two new state of emergency decrees, the Official Gazette reported early on Nov. 22. 

The Yedi Değirmenler (Seven Mills) Nature Park in the northern province of Giresun has been serving nature and culture tourism with its 250- to 300-year-old mills, which are still used by villagers.
 
The mills, which were built on waterfalls and rivers by corn producers in the region centuries ago, are still functioning. 

Authorities have allocated 6 million Turkish Liras to clean up Lake Uzungöl, a major tourist attraction in the eastern Black Sea region in Trabzon, the Forestry and Water Affairs Ministry announced April 14. 

Efforts to remove mud and sediment from the lake so as to increase tourism have started.

A rise seen in the population of red deer, which began in a special reproduction station established in 1991, in the Central Anatolian province of Yozgat's Akda?madeni district has proven satisfying for local officials.
 

Fresh water has not been pumped through a new pipeline to households in Turkish Cyprus, amid a continuing dispute between Turkey and Turkish Cyprus over who will run the water affairs of the newly-built pipeline, Turkish Cypriot sources told daily Hürriyet.

Around two months after his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power with a sweeping victory in the Nov. 1 snap elections, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has called on leaders of opposition parties to get involved in dialogue over the preparation to forge a new constitution.

A caretta caretta nesting ground has been discovered in the Milas district of the Aegean province of Mu?la, leading authorities to taken it under protection with hedges.

A green area containing a historical public building as well as thousands of trees in the capital Ankara has been subjected to a recent amendment which increased the size of its constructible area after being granted to Turkey's Forestry and Water Affairs Ministry, a move which might turn the green land into a concrete block.