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• Make Rojava Green Again: A meeting in Manhattan 

  The Internationalist Commune of Rojava has produced both a vision and a manual for what a free, ecological society can look like.
• Spring in Amed through ANF lenses 

  With the arrival of spring, there are more than 250 bird species in the Hewsel Gardens, where colourful and beautiful floral scents conquest the air.
• Final declaration of the 1st Mesopotamia Water Forum in Sulaimani 

  The Mesopotamian Water Forum is an alternative civil society forum for water, an open space to give voice to those who are marginalized and excluded from the discussion about water management in the Mesopotamian region.
• Make Rojava Green Again Meeting in Geneva 

  A networking meeting of the "Make Rojava Green Again" campaign took place this weekend in Geneva. The ecologically focused activists also showed solidarity with the hunger strikes in Turkish prisons.
• 7000 trees for Raqqa 

  As part of the tree planting campaign launched in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa in mid-March, the Civil Council has planted 7,000 trees in the former capital of the self-proclaimed ISIS caliphate.
• German State confiscates “Make Rojava Green Again” books 

  “We condemn this decision and demand the return of the books as well as the lifting of the ban of the Mezopotamya publishing house.”
• Olives planted to condemn Turkish destruction of Afrin nature 

  The campaign lasted 7 days and was promoted by intellectuals and artists who planted olive tree saplings in Jazira and Euphrates regions. 
• Turkish-backed mercenaries destroy the nature of Afrin 

  Afrin remains under the occupation of the Turkish army and allied jihadist mercenaries for one year now.
• Afrin’s olives on Switzerland’s agenda 

  Swiss MP Bernhard Guhl took the Turkish state looting Afrin’s olives to be sold to Spain to the Swiss parliament’s agenda. Guhl stressed that the Turkish state continues to violate international law in front of the whole world to see.
• KODAR’s Ecology Committee warns the IRGC and wood mafia 

  Over the past two months, there have been numerous reports on social media of massive destruction of the Zagros Forests and the plundering of wood in Rojhilat. KODAR’s Ecology Committee warns the perpetrators that they will be held accountable.
• Disaster Flood in the Tigris – Made by a Turkish Dam 

  The Mesopotamia Ecology Movement (MEM) critized that the current state policies of the Turkish state aim to dominate fully nature with engineering and narrow economic approaches.
• Images of autumn in the mountains of Kurdistan 

  Autumn continues in the mountains of Kurdistan despite the onset of winter.
• Italian edition of Make Rojava Green Again now out 

  With the language bridging utopia and the concrete, the poetic and the everyday, the Internationalist Commune has produced a vision which is also a book about how an ecological and free society may look like.
• The dangers of the Tigris Dam 

  The water level in the Tigris River continues to rise in parallel with the flow of water after a hatch in the Tigris Dam in Amil's Eğil district was closed.
• Massacre against nature on Afrin-Idlib highway 

  The invading Turkish state and their allied gangs have been cutting down olive and pomegranate trees in the region for the construction of the Afrin-Idlib highway.
• Afrin’s nature and resources under threat 

  The Turkish state is not threatening only human life and human rights but also the nature in Afrin territory under its occupation.
• Profiteering continues in Hasankeyf: 265 tonne iwan moved 

  The Imam Abdullah Zawiya’s iwan part has been moved out of Hasankeyf in the final phase.
• Occupation forces set fire to mountains in Afrin 

  Turkish forces and allied mercenaries continue destroying the nature of Afrin under their occupation.
• Forest fire in Dersim countryside grows 

  The fire started by the Turkish army in Kutudere region of Dersim is growing and people are not allowed to intervene.
• Turkish bombardment starts a fire in Dersim countryside 

  The Turkish army continues destroying the nature of Kurdistan through its attacks during military operations.
• Professor Üstün: The West must see the fires burning Dersim 

  HDP member of Ecology Commission, Dr. Beyza Üstün, said that fires in Dersim are part of the war policies carried out by the state.
• “Pillaging and ecocide in Kurdistan” 

  HDP Van MP Tayip Temel stated that there is an intense war in progress and added: “The state is attacking society, the land and all living beings in Kurdistan.”
• Artist Ferhat Tunç: We won't give up defending nature 

  Artist Ferhat Tunç said that the state has been exposed by burning the forests and thus showing it wants to empty the villages of Dersim.
• Call for action for Dersim 

  The forest fires started by the Turkish state in Dersim’s central and rural areas have spread to thousands of hectares with the wind.
• Four environmentalists killed in forest firefighting in Rojhilat 

  Four environmental activists died on Saturday in the eastern Kurdistan county of Marivan. The four men were trying to fight a wildfire that had broken out due to artillery attacks by Iranian Pasdaran forces.