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Six months after the devastating twin earthquakes centered in Kahramanmaraş, Istanbulites' demand for building durability screening tests has plummeted, returning to pre-earthquake levels, according to a municipal official.

Two individuals have been detained following an attack on Istanbul Municipality officials during the demolition of illegal cafes in Üsküdar district.

Veterinarian Gökçe Coşkun, who carries out scientific studies on wildlife rehabilitation, provides voluntary treatment for birds that leaves Africa and the Arabian Peninsula in March and are injured during their migration to Northern Europe via Türkiye.

Within the scope of Istanbul's new action plan for scooters, 1,500 parking spaces will be established throughout the city, and those who leave their scooters in the parking areas will receive a discount.

Journalist Tolga Akyıldız has died at the age of 50 due to a cerebral hemorrhage. Akyıldız, who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in his home on April 1 in Istanbul was taken to Maslak Acıbadem Hospital. But he died in the night.

His sister Gökçe Akyıldız announced that Tolga Akyıldız will be buried in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery after the noon prayer to be held at Zincirlikuyu Mosque today.

Amid the quake panic in the country's largest metropolis of Istanbul, which has a population of 16 million, the city's municipality is taking measures to ban mezzanine floors in accordance with the new zoning regulation to make the city more quake-resistant.

Nature associations and bird watchers have criticized the Central Hunting Commission's decision that some 29 bird species will be on the list of hunters in the new hunting season, which will start on Aug. 20.

A documentary depicting the environmental problems the flamingos of the Delta of Gediz face has won the "Best Environmental Movie" award at the Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival.

The flamingos in the İzmir-Gediz Delta, which is of great importance in terms of breeding and habitat for flamingos in Türkiye, have been photographed with satellite images obtained via Google Earth.

The very first plants that have pullulated at the 50,000 hectares of forestland burnt in the wildfires in the southern province of Antalya's Manavgat district belong to the "agnus castus" plant species, a bird watcher wandering the region has said.

"I monitored some blue and purple plants in the Beydiğin area," Gökçe Coşkun told the Demirören News Agency on Aug. 19.