T kieron N Kara Lake View Traditional Cache
T kieron N Kara Lake View
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The Cache is hidden on Iztuzu Beach
PLEASE VISIT THE TURTLE RESCUE CENTER NEAR THE BEACH
A Chaperone for Sea Turtles' Turkish Summer Nights By STEPHEN KINZER Published: Wednesday, July 29, 1998
On many nights this summer, a mysterious and wondrous spectacle has been unfolding on the beach of this Mediterranean town Beginning soon after dark, dozens of giant loggerhead turtles, some a century old or older, emerge from the waves, lumber up the sand, dig three-foot-deep holes and deposit 100 or more eggs before returning to the sea. Not far from the shoreline, a British-born woman who has made Turkey her home sits contentedly in a house made largely of driftwood. Without her, the sea turtles might have lost their breeding ground here, one of the most important in this part of the world. The woman, June Haimoff, spent many summers aboard a boat sailing in the Aegean before settling in a shack on the sand bar here in 1975. Before long she saw her first breeding sea turtle, and slowly she came to realize that the Dalyan beach was a vital part of the turtles' world. When she learned that a Turkish-German consortium was planning to build a hotel on the beach, she flew into action. Sea turtles time their egg-laying so that 60 days later when the eggs hatch, a full moon will be shining.
The hatchlings follow the glare of the moon to find the sea, which is to be their home. Lights from a hotel development would almost surely disorient them and lead many to die within hours of their birth. Ms. Haimoff, who when asked her age said only that she was born in the 1920's, began by collecting signatures and contacting environmentalists in Germany. Before long an international campaign was under way. ''It was a question of either being for the turtles, who need this beach for survival, or for people who are just looking for someplace hot for a week so they can go back like lobsters to Bremen or Dusseldorf,'' she said. Environmental consciousness was very low in Turkey during the 1980's, and there was not yet a Government agency to defend nature and wildlife. Many people in Dalyan became angry at Ms. Haimoff for blocking what they saw as a money-making project. At one point they accused her of being a Greek spy.
But as it turned out, a combination of factors led to a trail-blazing victory for Ms. Haimoff and the turtles. German campaigners brought public pressure to bear on the German company that was building the hotel. At the same time, management of the family-owned Turkish partner company, Kavala Holding, passed to a young man, Osman Kavala, who considers himself a conservationist. ''When we started construction, hardly anyone in Turkey knew about sea turtles coming to this beach,'' Mr. Kavala said in an interview. ''After we found out what the situation was, we tried to modify the project and turn it into a kind of environmental hotel. But after a while it became clear that the only solution was to abandon the project altogether.'' As the developers were changing their position, the Turkish Government began to focus on the issue. In 1987 the Prime Minister at the time, Turgut Ozal, came here and proclaimed the beach a ''specially protected area.'' As he was departing, several people in the crowd pointed to Ms. Haimoff and shouted that she was the ''turtle woman.'' He stopped, shook her hand and told her: ''Thank you.
We need people like you.'' With backing at such a high level, public officials began to take the turtles and their defenders seriously. Today the Dalyan beach is closed between dusk and dawn, and large signs list rules that daytime visitors must follow. Ms. Haimoff's success helped inspire Turkey's fledgling environmental movement. But many environmentalists say that the Government pays only lip service to their concerns. In a new brochure, one environmental coalition asserts that controls at Dalyan and other beaches where turtles lay eggs are too loose, and that waterfront development is racing out of control. ''Now there remains almost no coastal area still in its natural state, neither for nesting of marine turtles nor for use by tourists and ourselves,'' the brochure says. ''Existing and planned construction has already exceeded the carrying capacity of our coasts.'' (visit link)
TURKISH,
Birçok gece bu yaz, gizemli ve harika gözlük karanlık kısa bir süre sonra başlayan bu Akdeniz şehrin sahilde açılımı olmuştur, dev Caretta kaplumbağalarının onlarca, bazı asırlık veya daha büyük dalgaların ortaya, kereste yukarı kum, kazı Denize dönmeden önce üç-ayak-derin delikler ve mevduat 100 veya daha fazla yumurta. Çok uzak olmayan kıyı, Türkiye evine ölçüde odun yapılmış bir evde contentedly oturur yapmış bir İngiliz doğumlu kadın. Onsuz, deniz kaplumbağaları dünyanın bu bölümünde burada üreme zemini, en önemli birini kaybettim olabilir. kadın, June Haimoff, onun ilk üreme deniz kaplumbağası gördüm Çok geçmeden 1975 yılında burada kum çubuğunda bir kulübede yerleşmeden önce Ege'de bir tekne yelken gemiye çok yazlar geçirdi ve yavaş yavaş o Dalyan plajı olduğunu fark geldi kaplumbağaların dünyasının önemli bir parçası. O bir Türk-Alman konsorsiyumu sahilde bir otel inşa etmeyi planlıyor olduğunu öğrendim, o eyleme uçtu. Deniz kaplumbağaları zaman onların yumurtlama yani 60 gün sonra yumurta yumurtadan, bir dolunay parlayan olacak o zaman.
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