NATURE CONSERVATION AREAS PROTECTED UNDER VARIOUS STATUES IN THE CITY OF ERZINCAN

Year 2019, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 185 - 192, 18.06.2019

Metin Demır , Ahmet Mesut Caner

Abstract

For more
than a century, several countries have established conservation areas with
various conservation statues to protect their natural beauties and biological
richness.

In this
study, it is aimed to give information about the current state of protected
areas and the conservation status in the city of Erzincan.  In this
study, survey, data collection and analysis are used as method. In Erzincan
Province, there are one naturel monument, one Wildlife Development Area, one nature park, 3 units of 1st degree natural
protected area, 1 nature of existence, 18 governmental hunting grounds, 7 general hunting’s and one wetland
(RAMSAR) in protected situated. Total areal size of protected areas is equal to 0,52% of areal size of
Erzincan.

Keywords

Erzincan, Areas of Nature Conservation, Conservation status

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