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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We set off from Calis plaj on a twelve Island tour with a difference; no motor to carry us across the bay but seated in cockpits and propelled by paddle. Muscles strained as we attacked the sea fully loaded with food, water and necessary extras, everything squeezed into watertight compartments forward and aft. The beach [...]...
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Once again the tragic news of a sea turtle death was being discussed in Fethiye. Awareness is lacking for many individuals and authorities but hopefully the team of biologists led by Ass. Prof. Dr. Yakup Kaska on Iztuzu Beach can begin to change things for the better.
Last week two endangered species of sea turtle were [...]...
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