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Turkey’s First Wildlife Corridor Links Bear, Wolf and Lynx Populations to the Caucasus Forests

28.02.2012

Turkey’s first wildlife corridor is the biggest active landscape conservation project ever undertaken in Turkey and the reforestation of the corridor will take close to a decade. The area of the corridor is bigger than the protected area it is connecting, a rarity in corridor projects. If the wildlife corridor were a national park, it would be the 15th largest of Turkey’s 40 national parks. The GDNCNP of the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs recently declared the corridor area a “Protected Forest”. Two thirds of this area is already forest, which makes the corridor an ideal candidate for reforestation. The General Directorate for Combating Desertification and Erosion will reforest the remaining third of this area to connect the forest patches. The General Directorate of Forestry will hire local park rangers for the protection of the forest corridor.

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