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Forest Climbing in Antalya

Forest Climbing in Antalya
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31.08.2008 Morning

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It turned out that there are stones and mine stoves wrapped like the spider network of the second enemy of forest areas, which have no fires in Antalya.

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According to the information collected, the number of companies receiving mining search business license from the General Directorate of Mining Works of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources reached 2 thousand 223. The number of companies starting from Antalya Provincial Private Administration from workplace opening and working license was 373. 99 hectar land allowed to work on each company. 36 thousand 927 hectar forest area is destroyed for the sake of stone, soil and filler material. In Antalya, the last 11 years, 2 thousand 350 forest fires appeared. In these fires, 22 thousand hectar forestry area was ash. The total of areas with burning ash is less than allocated to stone and mining stoves. Stone and mining stoves are 14 thousand 927 hectar destroys more forests.

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The General Directorate of Mining Works and the Antalya Provincial Special Administration reacts the environmentalists because it allows mine quarries in the forest. The Secretary General of the Provincial Private Administration is the General Assembly, "We can not do anything else that allows the company to license from the General Directorate of Mining Works. If we do not give permission, we are guilty."

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