Tree preservation?

[WendyA]

I don't suppose anyone knows whether there is anything like a tree preservation order in Turkey, do they?!  I'm sure this is very unlikely, but there is a nice, very well established tree on land in front of my property and just wondering if I could use it in some way to try and protect the land from being built on!   I know it's a long shot, but just a thought...

I can't find anything on a variety of searches, so I doubt if they do, but anyone know anything?

[Scunner]

I am not entirely sure what the answer to your question is but I did understand that there are certain tree types that are protected in Turkey. Sadly my experience is that it rarely prevents development, they just disappear one night.

[Libra]

TEMA is one of the best known and respected nature preservation organisations in Turkey.

Their facebook page  is : https://www.facebook.com/temavakfi

Their web address is    :  http://www.tema.org.tr/web_14966-2_1/index.aspx


Maybe you can start sending them a message , a picture  and ask what can be done.

[Libra]

If you click on Fethiye on this map , you'll see infos about the Fethiye representative of TEMA :

http://www.tema.org.tr/web_14966-2_1/neuralnetwork.aspx?type=85&add=2

[WendyA]

Thanks very much...

[Libra]

Good luck.

[buddy]

Gunluk trees are protected. We have 5 at the back of our place and they were getting too high but we were warned by a Turkish neighbour not to remove them. After extensive enquiries to the authorities and being sent round departments in circles we eventually were allowed only to trim them.

[Scunner]

As you walk up from the waterpark street to the main sunday market street, should you make that connection by choosing Sokak 965 (the first left of Genpa) - you will finally walk past a piece of land on the junction of Sokak 965 and the sunday market road. This was, I was told, entirely filled with gunluk trees and you could never even dream of building on it. Or Manazara's big apartment complex as it is known today...?

[ArtyMar]

When we returned to our villa in Koca Calis a couple of weeks ago, we discovered we had a pavement outside our villa (opposite the forrest) - very nice - but oh dear, we've lost 3 large beautiful high eucalyptus trees that I always admired. Such a shame!

[stoop]

As Scunner says, preservation orders are easily got around by just ignoring them.

Even in the UK we see it. I remember a guy who owned a wood near us wanted to build on both edges if it but the trees were all healthy and the council said no. Then months later someone hacked them with a chainsaw and the result was they had to be removed. He ended up building his houses and making a fortune out of a wood he bought off the council for a tenner!

Good luck though. I hope you manage to save the tree.