Lake Abant Nature Park
Students develop seeding tool to re-green burned forests
With an aim to re-green the burned forestlands, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University students have developed a seeding tool named "Seedrone," which can do seeding from the air.
A group of students from Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University Vocational School of Technical Sciences has developed a project for the re-greening of forests damaged by fires.
Ski resorts preparing for busy season
While snowfall is yet to begin, people have already started booking hotels in Turkey's ski resorts for the winter season, with many of these venues enjoying a heavy inflow.
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School break gives boost to domestic tourism
Scores of people, especially students, are flocking to Turkey's major holiday destinations, such as Antalya, Cappadocia and Lake Abant, with the start of a short school break, giving a boost to local tourism activity.
Schools will remain closed from Nov. 15 to Nov. 19, but holidaymakers merged the weekends to prolong their stay at tourism destinations.
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Ancient statue in Bolu Musem turns out to be Greek goddess
A 2,000-year-old painted female head statue, which has been on display at the Bolu Museum in the northwestern province of Bolu for 50 years, has been determined to be the Greek goddess Artemis.
'Heart of nature' park attracts vacationers
Gölcük Nature Park in northern Turkey has become a favorite spot for vacationers, especially during winter.
The park that is famous for its natural beauty and known as the "heart of nature" in the Black Sea province of Bolu - a big tourist attraction with Lake Abant and Yedigoller, or Seven Lakes - is among the leading thermal and health tourist magnets in the region.
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New herbaceous plant species discovered in northwest Turkey
A new plant belonging to the Iridaceae family has been discovered in northwestern Turkey.
A report on the plant, published in the journal Phytotaxa, said its scientific name is Gladiolus Aladagensis, named after Aladağlar, a mountainous and isolated region in the province of Bolu, where it was discovered.
Brown bear embalmed
A three-meter-tall brown bear, which died six months ago on a highway in the northwestern province of Bolu, was embalmed and put on display at the Animal Museum at the Abant Nature Park
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Jilted lover stabs university student in Turkey's north
A university student stabbed a classmate he had allegedly fallen in love with after learning she had a boyfriend in the northern province of Bolu on Oct. 13.
Turkish university student detained over retweeting Erdo?an 'insult'
A university student in western Turkey has been detained for retweeting a phrase ?insulting? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Twitter.
How to save nature and humanity?
It would be a very long list if the past yearâs mass tree cuttings were all counted. Even the list of what happened in the past two weeks makes oneâs heart ache: In the inner Aegean town of Soma, villagers woke up one morning to see that bulldozers had flattened all of the olive groves. For the thermal power plant of Kolin, 1,000 trees were cut illegally.
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