A Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle) found wounded at sea in Fethiye was saved by tourists.
According to reports, tourists on a daily boat tour noticed a wounded Caretta caretta between the Chevalier and the Red Islands. Some of the tourists jumped into the sea and took the tortoise on board.
Thereafter tourists notified Ali Ihsan Emre, [...]...
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The situation of the Blue Crab (Land of Lights October 2009) does not look good. Their numbers have decreased greatly year by year due to increasing human presence in their habitat, the beach at Dalyan.
Crab fishing is now featured as a tourist attraction contributing to the crabs’ demise. Groups of tourists are taken [...]...
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Çaliş Bird Reserve and Caretta turtles are just two of the projects that the Çaliş Carnival Committee will support from their 2009 fundraising efforts.As well as continuing to help local disadvantaged children and fund bursaries to support local youngsters at university, the committee have decided that they would like help environmental projects in the Çaliş [...]...
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Dear Readers,
I received a letter from a lady that we all know as Captain June she would like to share with you her thoughts and believes. Id like to take this opportunity to thank her personally for all her efforts in Dalyan
Serdar Duzenli
Editor
I am Captain June and am sending you my commentary on your previous [...]...
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A rehabilitation centre is to be established on the Iztuzu Beach of Dalyan by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry for the caretta carettas which are under global preservation against the threat of extinction.The rehabilitation centre is to be established on the Dalyan Iztuzu Beach, which is one of the 17 locations where caretta carettas [...]...
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Thousands of Caretta Caretta off-springs, hatching approximately 25 thousand eggs laid in 260 recorded nests along the 5.4 kilometres of Iztuzu coastline at the Dalyan district of Ortaca, Mugla, reached the Mediterranean by their tiny and slow steps and waded into the water.Associated Prof. Dr. Yakup Kaska, of the Department of Biology at the Pamukkale [...]...
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The dead body of a Caretta Caretta tangled in fish nets in the Gulf of Fethiye was washed ashore. Threatened by extinction, the deaths among the Caretta Carettas due to various reasons still prevail. The body of the Caretta Caretta was discovered by the fishermen in the region and it was stated that this was [...]...
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A 60-year-old ailing caretta caretta, discovered in the offshores of the Balaban Island, was brought to Fethiye for treatment.The 60-year-old caretta caretta, apparently in ill health, was found by tourist divers. The tourists brought the caretta caretta to the port of Fethiye in a boat and Ali Ihsan Emre, the volunteer environmentalist, attended to it. [...]...
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The Goldaş Summer School for Jewellery Designing, which was started by Goldaş Jewelers in 2004, was held at Dalyan this year between the dates of the 25th of June and the 2nd of July, with the participation of students from twenty-one universities in Turkey and Russia. Goldaş developed this project to contribute to the training of [...]...
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Once more, the body of one of the Caretta Carettas, taken under special protection all over the world because they are threatened by extinction, was washed out to the Çalış Beach. The Caretta Carettas come to the Çalış Beach to lay their eggs. The beach is within the boundaries of the Special Environmental Protection (ÖÇKK). [...]...
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