ECOLOGY

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• Drought and military restrictions threaten nomadic life in Cizre 

  Due to the prevailing drought, the nomads in Cizre, Şırnak had to return to their villages from the high pastures earlier this year. Many of the ancestral pastures are restricted military areas.
• Lake Van basin is drying up 

  Global warming and drought have caused the water level to drop in Lake Van. Many large and small lakes, streams, dams and spring waters in the Lake Van basin have dried up.
• HDK calls on everyone to increase resistance against policies that destroy environment 

  The HDK said: "We must increase the resistance against policies that destroy forests, water areas, agricultural areas and biodiversity."
• Experts caution about outage of the Euphrates River water 

  Experts warned of humanitarian catastrophes in Syria and Iraq if the Euphrates River's water was cut off, saying that the Turkish state jeopardized the lives of millions of people by cutting off the water.
• Baskale travertines, a newly discovered natural beauty in Van 

  Baskale travertines, which resemble Pamukkale travertines, are one of the newly discovered natural beauties of Van.
• Ecological destruction in Kurdistan will be protested on Global Climate Day 

  The Fridays for Future campaign has called for a global strike on September 24. The Democratic Confederalism Initiative and KCDK-E will also take part in the protests.
• Wildfires spread in Gabar and Gever 

  In the Kurdish provinces of Şırnak and Hakkari, wildfires are raging, destroying the region's fauna and flora. In Gever, an important bird breeding area is in danger of burning down completely.
• Stubble burning causes panic in Hevsel Gardens in Amed 

  A stubble burning caused panic in the Hevsel Gardens in Amed. The flames quickly spread in the 7,000-year-old valley and could only be contained by the effective intervention of the fire brigades.
• Environmental organizations in Dersim against ecocide 

  In an act of solidarity, representatives of more than 30 environmental organizations in Istanbul have traveled to Dersim to send a signal against the ecocide practiced by the Turkish army in the province.
• Turkish air strikes cause fire on Mount Gabar 

  Another forest fire broke out as a result of Turkish air strikes on the summit of Mount Gabar in North Kurdistan.
• KESK: High-security border posts cause ecological destruction 

  KESK prepared a report on the Dersim fires and said that the fires increased systematically and were not extinguished.
• Ecologists on their way to Dersim as Turkish army burns forests 

  As the Turkish army starts fires in Dersim and Amed's forested areas, ecologists in Istanbul have decided to go to Dersim to investigate the ecological destruction in the city.
• Village guards want to empty the Konalga Village 

  Villagers who were forcibly installed in the houses built as part of the village-city project during the Ecevit period are now being asked to vacate them. The villagers said that a HEPP or a mine was planned to be built there.
• Forest fire breaks out in Ovacık as a result of the army bombing of the area  

  A forest fire broke out as a result of the bombardment of the mountainous region between two villages of Ovacık.
• Turkish state uses village guards to cut down centuries-old trees on Mount Cudi 

  The Turkish state uses village guards to cut down centuries-old almond and turmeric trees on Mount Cudi.
• Turkey’s reduction of the Euphrates water slams into cotton harvest 

  The invading Turkish state’s reduction of the Euphrates River’s water, rising temperatures and increasing cost of fertilizer have adversely affected cotton production in North and East Syria.
• Turkish troops set fire to forests in Bitlis and Siirt  

  Forest fires started in nine villages in Narlıdere, Bitlis and the Kasrik region of Siirt.
• "Military posts are set up after the forest fires in the Kurdish region" 

  There is a world of difference between the forest fires in western Turkey and Kurdistan, says environmental activist Vahap Işıklı: "In Kurdistan, it's about arson, the fires don't break out on their own."
• Power plant activities destroy pearl mullets in Zîlan Stream 

  Following the activities of a power plan that started in the Zîlan Stream, thousands of fish were washed ashore and destroyed as the nitrogen and phosphate levels scaled up.
• Forest fire started by Turkish bombardment in Amed countryside continues 

  In the district of Dicle near Amed, a forest area is burning after Turkish bombardment. For three days, hardly any efforts have been made to extinguish the fire; instead, the military has been terrorizing the population.
• Trustee of Kızıltepe Municipality cuts hundred of trees 

  Kızıltepe Municipality teams, who were forcibly dismissed by the AKP-MHP government that appointed a trustee, eradicated hundreds of trees on Thursday night.
• New forest fire broke spreads on Mount Cudi  

  A forest fire broke out on Mount Cudi in Şırnak for unknown reasons.
• ‘The Turkish state burned 35 percent of the forests in South Kurdistan’ 

  Sarwar Qaradaxi, a member of the Kurdistan Nature Organisation, recorded that the Turkish state burned over 1 million 300 thousand dunams of forested land in South Kurdistan, 35 percent of all forests in South Kurdistan.
• New fire breaks out in Munzur Valley 

  A fire broke out in the forest area of Sal Stream in the Munzur Valley.
• Kurds in Dortmund protest massacre of nature in Kurdistan 

  Kurds living in Dortmund took to the streets to protest the massacre of nature carried out by the fascist Turkish state as part of its special war plan.