Catamaran in Belek Defense

01.11.2007 CNN Türk

The General Manager of Investment and Businesses of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Şenol Aydemir, in Belek, is not possible to cut “500 thousand trees in terms of opening golf courses in Belek. There were already a total of 162 thousand trees in the area given to the installation of golf courses. According to the data we received from the Forest Regional Directorate, it was cut 80 thousand.

Aydemir, who said they thought that the TEMA authority in Antalya was hurricade in 2005 and 2007, "When the photos are synonymous, probably the construction period of golf land there. All areas of view brown soil because it comes to construction period. He said. [[
{[T]]} says that the number of trees is more visible but the important part of them is the eucalyptus tree, "Maybe 30 years ago a swam Tags. They eat eucalyptus trees to dry the trap. So any endemic and a tree without ecological value. There is no problem if we look at this point, but if you look at the general tree population in the region, this is a matter of choice."

Aydemir, "If they were the mostdemic trees that need to be very protected, then he spoke that the Ministry of Environment and Forest would not allow them."

The civil society organizations in the region draw the golden that the "endemic" peanut pines are cut.

The Turkish Medical Association (TTKD) Antalya Branch President Gift Day, "Orada 18 thousand acres of peanut pine, 5 thousand acres of acres of acres, also okaliptus tree. There were 600-700 thousand trees, they cut 500 thousand. A few rows of trees left on the edge of the road to not hook the response of the public, the main cut was carried out in the interiors of the forest.

Day, saying that the golf courses that will destroy the environment in the region are created, "Golf sites consuming incredibly water. As a result, excessive and uncontrolled underground usage water table appears. A golf course needs 10- 15 thousand cubic meters of water per year. The amount of water that a 100 hectares of a golf course will be about 1 million cubic meters.

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