WWF-Turkey Today Meets the Law Design to be Approved in the Assembly

06.05.2008

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The nature of Turkey has become open to unreversible destructions in recent years with various law changes. Today, the most remarkable substance of the Law on the Amendment of the “Teshvik Law” voted in the parliament; the total width of the state forest, which will be allocated to tourism investment, will not exceed 1% of the forest’s width. This percentage, which is considered as a small proportion, actually falls in the forest area of two million acres across Turkey.

[[T]]As the largest threat of the century started to affect our global climate change and its outcome, WWF Turkey forests instead of taking measures that will better protect the forests, the final forest areas left in the Mediterranean Region are an unacceptable understanding of tourism. The presence of water resources can be continuously done with the presence of forests around it. The water resources and underground waters, which are under danger with the influence of drought, will take more trajik. [

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It is also seen in the design of the "forestation of the area up to three times" provision of a blood. It is clear that the benefits of large-rich forests by developing throughout the centuries can not be provided by new planted trees. Forests are a whole with biological diversity, it is the basis of food safety as well as with gene source. The ecological value criteria of forests, the integrity of the ecosystem with the tree, wildlife, soil and water, these elements allow them to function continuously between natural processes (for example, the presence of wildlife without disturbing), the age and maturity of the ecosystem, biological wealth, rare, endemic, species and habitats under the danger. Turkey, one of the countries that will feel the effects of global climate change, should not conquer its forests for the sake of short-term and non-reliable economic activities.

International research and detections were questioning the future of tourism in the Mediterranean Basin with global climate change Tags. Instead of the design that opens the front of the rant far from this kind of public benefit, it will be a more accurate step to prepare the tourism sector to the scorching effects in the Mediterranean Region of global climate change. It is not convinced to work to cover such a land allocation, with unconditional concepts such as “ecotourism”.

Although the scope of the design with the regulations made in the Design of the Foundation is not enough, although it is limited to tourism development areas.

In the Mediterranean Region, where tourism investments are located in the density of tourism investments until now, with the price policies of the hotels established in tourism and sand-polished areas, the increase of tourism revenues of our country. Instead of opening new tourism facilities in these areas, it was sought to make the tourism sector profitable for all inclusive policies Tags. What to do is to produce sustainable solutions instead of destroying the forests that need the most priority in the climate crisis. [

]For the letter sent to the Millietvekills and Prime Minister: [http://www.wwf.org.tr/fileadmin/files/Milletvekiller.pdf]
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