Değerhan Değer 10-Science Tarık Kardıçalı 9-Grade Mert Kahraman 11-Science Osman Şahinbozkır 10-Science

1. Değerhan Değer 10-Science • Tarık Kardıçalı 9-Grade • Mert Kahraman 11-Science • Osman Şahinbozkır 10-Science

7. General  Information

11. Index • Water • Droughts • Erosion • Fish In Türkiye • Endangered Species • Arboretums • Plant Diversity • Forests • Istanbul Strait • The Bosphorus

12. TÜRKİYE’S ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

13. Water Water has a vital importance for all living organisms. Water is ¾ of the world, 2/3 of our bodies

14. Türkiye’spopulation was 28 million in the 1960’s and had4000 cubicmeters of water per person. Today Türkiye is 70 million and has 1400 cubic meters of water per person.

15. Manyas lake Before After

16. Before After Doğancı Dam

17. Eşmekaya bird paradise Before After

18. Alibeyköy Dam Before

19. After

20. Reasons of Droughts • Desertification • Water Stress • Environmental damage

22. Desertification increases.

23. Türkiye will be under droughts and will be desertified in 2030 under these conditions. In terms of water, Türkiye is the poorest country in Europe and the richest country in the Middle East.

24. Desertification is a global problem. Caused mostly because of GLOBAL WARMING

25. To Prevent Desertification We Must: • Stop “wasting” trees for industry • Increase afforestation • Protect our trees from fire • Protect water sources

26. Tema Foundation • The Tema Foundation was founded against the danger of desertification in Turkey. Its one of the most active foundation in Turkey

29. Erosion Erosion is losing productive land to water and winds.

30. Fish in Türkiye

31. Türkiye has seas on three sides and is a fish paradise. • There are 247 kinds of fish in the Black sea, 200 in the Marmara • Sea, 285 in the Mediterranean. There are about 350 kinds of fish • in all our seas. In our fresh waters there are 192 kinds of fish.

32. Fishing in Türkiye • Türkiye has the largest fishing fleet in • the Mediterranean. Illegal fishing is a problem in Türkiye.

33. Fener Balığı - Angler Fish Dil Sole Çinekop -Young blue fish Barbunya - Red Mullet

34. Gümüş Balığı Sand Smelt İstavrit Horse Mackerel Gelincik Balığı - Rockling Fish Hamsi - Anchovy

35. Lüfer - Bluefish Mercan - Red sea bream Orfoz - Grouper Mezgit – Whiting

36. Kefal - Gray mullet Levrek - Sea bass Kalkan – Turbot Kırlangıç - Red gurnard

37. DANGER

38. EndangeredSpecies The Family Animalia 134 Mammals 450 Birds 105 Reptiles 22 Frogs 127 Freshwater fishes 384 Sea fish 1220 Vertabrate Caretta Caretta

39. Caretta Caretta Today the main threat to the adult turtles lies in shrimp trawls and crab fishing nets.

40. Iztuzu Beach Dalyan Türkiye • Iztuzu Beach Dalyan Türkiye is thenesting ground of Caretta Carettas

41. Mediterranean Seal(Monachus Monachus)

42. There are only 350 Mediterranean Seals left in the Mediterranean and only 50-60 in Türkiye.

43. Arboretums

44. There are three main Arboretums in Türkiye: • Atatürk Arboretum in Ankara • Çukurova Süleyman Demirel Arboretum in Adana • Karaca Arboretum in Yalova

45. Atatürk Arboretum Established in 1949 by the Istanbul University Forestry Faculty Expands on 345 hectares of forest.

46. Established in Yalova in 1980 by It is a genetic protection area for endemic Turkish plants.

49. Plant Diversity

50. Endemic: Species belonging exclusively or confined to a particular place.