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West Black Sea Basin
Ilgaz Mountains
City: Çankırı, Kastamonu
Provinces: Ilgaz, Tosya, İhsangazi
Surface Area : 35000
Altitude : 2000 – 2587 m
Protection: partially
Bird Species: It gains important bird areas status with Sakallı Akbaba (2 pairs), kızıl akbaba and küçük kartal (5 pairs) populations.
Main Characteristics: forest, mountain
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Sarıkum Desert
City: Sinop
Provinces: Sinop Merkez
Surface Area: 785
Altitude: Sea level
Protection: Yes
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Akkuş Island
City: Ordu
Provinces: Perşembe
Surface Area: 2
Altitude: 0 – 20 m
Protection: N/A
Bird Species: It gains important bird areas status with tepeli karabatak (90 pairs) population.
Main Characteristics: rocky coastal islands
Eastern Black Sea Mountains
City: Trabzon, Gümüşhane, Bayburt, Rize, Erzurum, Artvin
Provinces: There are 32 provinces within important bird areas
Surface Area : 1.230.000
Altitude : 0 – [...]
Not Lake Van but the Sea of Van
We embarked early from Tuğ. The name of the steamer was Tatvan. There are two steamers plying on the lake; the name of the other is Bitlis. Tatvan is bigger and handsomer than Bitlis, a fine little ship. We are now half way across the lake. Lake Van [...]
The hatchlings sense the direction of the sea. The brightness over the water attracts them. They stream from the nest and begin their race to the sea. Full of life, but defenseless, they struggle clumsily across the beach. Their shells are soft and offer little protection. Swift lizards attack them. Armies of crabs pick them [...]
Sea Turtles have been around for 95 million years. Their ancestors were giant land turtles that entered the sea ages ago when the great dinosaurs lived. The first sea turtles looked little like those of today. It took millions of years for sea turtles to change, for legs to become pad-shaped flippers and for heavy, [...]
Eastern Black Sea And Çoruh Basins
Akkuş Island
City: Ordu
Provinces: Perşembe
Surface Area: 2
Altitude: 0 – 20 m
Protection: N/A
Bird Species: It gains important bird areas status with tepeli karabatak (90 pairs) population.
Main Characteristics: rocky coastal islands
Eastern Black Sea Mountains
City: Trabzon, Gümüşhane, Bayburt, Rize, Erzurum, Artvin
Provinces: There are 32 provinces within important bird areas
Surface Area : 1.230.000
Altitude : 0 [...]
European – Siberia Plant Societies (Black Sea Plant Socıetıes)
Black Sea Plant Society, which is under impact of a warm climate and a regular raining regime, is composed of all of the Black Sea Region as well as Marmara and Thrace, and also from place to place it is infiltrating into Central and Eastern Anatolia [...]
The Black Sea Region
Lush and green throughout the year, rocky mountains, the cool waters of the coast and plantations of tea, hazelnuts, tobacco and corn, the Black Sea is a unique part of the country. The main industry is farming, thanks mainly to the high rainfall, andin the summer the roadsides are lined with hazelnuts [...]