Nature Association

Almost all essential wetlands in Türkiye have experienced dramatic loss, while the area of wetlands that disappeared in the last 60 years has reached 2 million hectares, approximately one and a half times the size of the Marmara Sea, says a report by the Nature Association.

Pollution and poaching have decreased the nests and breeding areas of flamingos and crested pelicans at the mouth of the Gediz River in one of the largest deltas of the eastern Mediterranean, research and monitoring studies have revealed.

The Gediz Delta in the western province of İzmir, home to 10 percent of the world's flamingo population, will be a "kindergarten" for the baby flamingos as the hatching season has started.

"Baby flamingos that are now a part of the flock will start flying around by September," Dicle Tuba Kılıç, the head of the Nature Association, told daily Milliyet on May 10.

Within the scope of works conducted by the Nature Association to observe the biological variety in the Gediz Delta of the Aegean province of İzmir, the common eider species was detected as the 297th bird species in the region.

Lake Eğirdir in the western province of Isparta has been shrinking at an alarming rate, with its average former depth of 16 meters having fallen to 6-7 meters this year, said the provincial representative of Turkey’s Protection of Nature Association on Nov. 12. Click through for the story in photos...

Cats, who were accused of sabotaging Turkey's local elections last year, have received a stern warning against repeating their naughty behavior before the upcoming elections from a group of humans they are very familiar with:  Veterinarians.

A group of activists are organizing events in order to raise public awareness about the ecological problems affecting Lake Burdur, which is evaporating at an unprecedented rate.

Lake Burdur has become the stage of an exhibition by two artists, who on Aug. 25 danced inside its waters in an attempt to inspire officials to save it from drought.   

Owls that call the Taurus Mountains home are such mysterious and discreet animals that evidence of their existence was only discovered in 1990, only for the birds to make the most fleeting appearance since then. Now, however, the owls, known as “fish owls,” may once again disappear, this time for good.

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has commissioned Şero, its mascot cat, to safeguard ballot boxes during the Aug. 10 president elections, the party has said in a tongue-in-cheek internal memo.