Deer

The country's nature conservation body has announced the fines for hunting endangered species, which are off-limits for the 2024-2025 season.

The list of protected wild creatures prepared by the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks' Central Hunting Commission features mammals, reptiles and birds.

Swimmers were confronted with a sad sight in the sea on Monday morning in the area of Almiros in Kalamata.

They found that a deer was found dead in the sea, with the cause of death not yet known.

The coast guard was immediately alerted, which in turn informed the OAK Messinia.

Rhodes' iconic fallow deer - statues of which stand as emblems at the entrance to the southeastern Aegean island's Mandraki Harbor - are being decimated by the raging wildfire tearing through forests, hillside villages and seaside resorts.

A man has been taken into custody by Istanbul police after they discovered several peacocks and a dozen endangered deer, which are prohibited from being kept as pets, in his villa's garden in the Silivri district.

The tender for hunting a total of 20 red deer in central Anatolian provinces of Eskişehir, Afyonkarahisar, Denizli and Kütahya was canceled by the Afyonkarahisar Administrative Court upon the application of Eskişehir Animal Protection Association President Attorney Gülçin Yapıcı.

The Ormanya Wildlife Park in the northwestern province of Kocaeli hosted 5 million visitors despite the coronavirus pandemic last year.

Kocaeli Mayor Tahir Büyükakın said that Ormanya, located in Kartepe district, opened in May 2018. With a spectacular natural habitat, Ormanya welcomes millions of visitors each year, becoming Turkey's most visited one.

The number of "platoni," a subspecies of fallow deer (Dama dama), living in forested areas of the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes has jumped from around 200 a few years ago to more than 5,000, according to a recent census conducted as part of a plan for their management, in response to the problem caused by their overpopulation, mainly in terms of crop damage.

Turkish Agricultural Minister Bekir Pakdemirli said that 23 fallow deer that will be released into nature in the western Manavgat and Köyceğiz districts are now in an adaptation process.

The number of fallow deer, whose natural population continued only in the resort town of Antalya and remained at only seven about half a century ago, reached 500 after a protection project was launched.

A project has been going on for more than half a century to increase the population of fallow deer among endangered species.

A roe deer calf just a few days old was found with a broken leg by hunters on Mount Paiko, in northern Greece, and taken to the Arcturos wildlife shelter for treatment, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

The animal, named Thomas by its saviors, was first taken by the hunters to a vet in Giannitsa.