Istanbul’s Flora Under Threat
31.12.2007 NTVMSNBC
ISTANT - Istanbul University Faculty Prof. Dr. Neriman Özhatay, a lawyer Mustafa Keskin from Marmara University, booked with the collaboration of the “Istanbul Natural Plants of the Sea Basin”, the Natural Life Protection Association and Ömerli Belde Municipality. Turkey and Istanbul’s natural areas.
[[T]In the book taken into account that Turkey has one of the most rich snacks of temperament climate ad, Turkey has over 10 thousand plant types and has a richer flora than Europe, Middle East and North Africa. [[[T]] [email protected][In the book, it is necessary that about 3 thousand plants are only native to Turkey, not naturally grown anywhere in the world, Turkey's agricultural products, slaughteral plants are recorded to host a large number of plants that have economical value in international trade, which is also included in medical plants. [
122 From Area 7 in Istanbul
]]]]]In the book announced in Istanbul, 7 of the 122 important plant areas are located in Turkey, said that there are a danger of the destruction of 207 plant types, including 64 indemic. [
In the book, 73 in Terkos-Kasatura coasts, 13 of the endemic, 7 of them in the woody sandals, 14 of the mostdemic 14, 6 in Kilyos sandals, 7 endemic in western Istanbul pastures 19, 15 in the North Bosporus endemic 36, 6 of the mostdemic 13 and Ömerli Basin are facing the danger of being the mostdemic 37 plants.
In the book defending that Istanbul’s natural areas are not scientific base, associated with or even national/international laws are ignored, and a large accelerated urbanized, so about 5 thousand 100 square hundred measurement and a mega city with a population of 15 million, the city is surrounded by much more important to protect the natural areas.
In the book, Istanbul, which hosts hundreds of animal categories with flowering plants and ferrelti around 2 thousand 500, expressing that Istanbul contains a lot of rich biological variety, since it has some nations alone, “The UK 1850 plant type with a hundred measurement of 250 thousand square kilometers, include the Dutch 1600 plant species with 50 thousand square kilometers of facial measurement. There are 40 plants in the flora of Istanbul are called Turkey, 23 of which are only the most in Istanbul and nearby surroundings.
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[email protected]In the book expressed that Istanbul has a significant rich variety of habitats in the international scale, in recent years, pushed that the freedom that host the most common and compromise habitats of Istanbul are also home to rare fauna types such as wild pigs and çakal, which are broken and destroyed by tourism or other grounds.
[In the book, recorded that the largest and high quality fundalics in Turkey has been developing in Istanbul, "However these habitats are restored for reasons such as urbanization, sand-stone areas, wooding and expansion of agricultural fields. Istanbul entertainment is forecast to be destroyed by 85 percent until present.
[email protected][In the book, which was destroyed by 90 percent due to large mammal animals, birds and living areas of farm animals, large residential areas, nightcontination, roads and Olympic Stadium, Istanbul’s Black coasts, extending on both sides of the Bosphorus and some of them are expressed by 80 percent for reasons such as tourism investments, summer residences, sand, linyit quarries and wooding, which host over rare 30 plant types across the country.
]]The Importance of theFront Basin]
] [, one of the important water raftings of Istanbul, Ömerli Basin is taken into account that the Eastern European and Eastern Mediterranean countries have hosted the largest funals, in addition to 6 bloom plants listed in the Bern Convention of Ömerli Basin. [
The 1 Formula Facilities built in the middle of the hills covered with the funals of the eumerli Basin are applied in one of the most important migration routes of migrant birds in Europe, especially the steps between the Ömerli Dam Lake and the Bosphorus. In the book, it is reported that there are 13 ad species, such as “Kır Pearl Bird, Shepherdaldatan, Kara Leylek, Garden Cherry Bird, Cherry Bird, Kerkenez, Kirlangıcı, Ak Mukallit, Red-Backed Spiderbird, Tulle, Tailkakan, Stone Bird, Masked Kiss”.
[In the book marked by the importance of the protection of the Omerli Basin, which is the natural breathing of the Istanbuls, “I mean the protection of the Sea Basin, not only means the protection of the area’s greenness and animals, the clean water, clean air and the protection of the Istanbuls” is expressed.
In the book, it is desirable that Ömerli Basin is not only Istanbul, but the world’s common wealth, and the mostdemic and other rare types of plant in Ömerli Basin should be detected first, protected as “Natural SIT Area” according to the Basin’s, 2863 Cultural and Natural Assets Protection Law.
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