The Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change has issued 175 "EIA not required" decisions in the last 3 months for quarries that cause as much damage to ecology as cyanide gold mines.
It has been a year in which capitalists have exploited forests, agricultural areas, olive groves, tea and hazelnut gardens. In parallel with climate change, warming increased and many extreme natural events occurred.
SES Şirnex Branch Co-Chair Mihriban Şenbayram stated that the destruction of nature, which has been accelerating in Botan for 3 years, has caused serious air pollution and says, "Such unhealthy extraction of underground resources brings many diseases."
Right to Clean Air Platform Coordinator Deniz Gümüşel said that air pollution increases cancer and lung diseases and causes thousands of peredecease every year.
New images of the forest slaughter in the Gabar Mountain region have emerged.
Turkey Environment Platform (TÜRÇEP) Representatives Assembly announced the final declaration of the meeting held on 23-24 November.
Residents of Gewrik village in Mêrdînik called for solidarity for the 27 November hearing of the lawsuit they filed against gold and copper mines.
In Kurdistan, where ecological plunder is intensifying, 28 mining projects have received “EIA not required” decisions since the beginning of the year. Umut Şener, a member of Polen Ecology Collective, said that the plunder in Kurdistan is an extension of the 50 years of special war policies.
Third Hydroelectric plant will be built on the Hêzil Stream that flows through the Qileban district at a cost of 810 million liras.
Adnan Şenbayram, Co-Spokesperson of the Ecology Association Branch, warned that the geography of Şirnex will become completely barren if the tree cutting continues and called for support for the weekly statement and sapling planting campaign they will launch.
Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes due to ongoing forest fires in Izmir, Manisa and Aydın.
ESÇEVDER Chair Sadık Yurtman stated that they will stand against Cengiz Holding's mining project in Eskişehir and called for an information meeting on August 15.
A fire broke out in Simaqî neighborhood of Şankuş district of Amed and damaged vineyards.
A forest fire broke out in the Simaqî Neighborhood of Şankuş district.
New images of forest destruction by rangers in the Gabar Mountain region have emerged.