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Activity outputs and additional benefits
7.3. Raise awareness among Forestry and Agriculture Directorates of the
value and practical conservation of butterflies
Capitalizing on 12 years experience of DKM’s work with foresters, the project provided
expertise and guidance to identify the priority forest dependent butterflies, develop a simple
monitoring scheme and conservation oriented forestry management guidelines. With the
Ministry of Agriculture work focused on using the opportunity of an IPARD project to
develop contacts in the Ministry and to contribute to the development of the first agroenvironment
sub-measure for biodiversity.
Details on the work:
Forestry – integration of biodiversity into forest management plans (being implemented by
DKM in partnership with the Directorate of Forestry).
� Project team members, BCE experts and local butterfly watchers assisted with:
� developing a scoring system to identify priority forest-dependent butterfly species;
� producing habitat management guidelines for the six priority species;
� meetings with forestry district staff in the Savsat pilot area, 25-31 May 2011, to
promote butterflies as key element of forest biodiversity;
� testing the methodology for recording the priority species in the field.
Agriculture – preparation of an agro-environment measure for biodiversity
� Project team members joined the working group for the Environment and Countryside
under IPARD EU Twinning Project being implemented by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture
and Animal Husbandry:
� contributing data and expertise to inform the selection of the target site and species for
an agro-environment sub-measure for biodiversity;
� participating in a visit to the pilot site to develop the details of the sub-measure through
discussion with the local farmers and staff at the Regional Directorate.
Problems encountered
Forestry
Due to a lack of detailed knowledge of species’ ecology and distribution, it has not proved
possible to provide precise habitat management guidelines specific to Turkey.
Due to a communication failure between the authorities in the pilot region, the fieldworker
was detained by the jandarma. The issue was resolved through intervention and liaison on
the ground by DKM, but severely curtailed fieldwork.
Agriculture
Despite providing information on the close link between butterflies and agriculture, and
promoting PBAs in Erzurum where changes in agriculture threaten many sites and localized
species, for various logistical reasons the IPARD project team preferred to choose a site in
Ankara, and a high-profile bird species for which agro-environment measures have already
been developed successfully in the EU. The final measure is thus for great bustard (Otis
tarda).
Forestry
Scoring system, identifying the priority forest butterfly species. See 07.3.1_Forests_TargetButterflies_final
scores.xls in the annexes
Texts provided for the six priority butterfly species’ management guidelines, plus an example final, designed
guidelines sheet for Caucasian squirrel. See in 07.3.1 group annexes the habitat management guidelines files for 7
species . This project’s expert input to the guidelines is now complete; the final designed documents will be
produced later in 2011, towards the end of the Forest Project.
Report on Savsat forest district field visit. See 07.3.1_Savsat Field Visit_May2011.doc in the annexes
Butterfly records from fieldwork and Hesselbarth et al. (1995) See 07.3.1_Savsat Bfly Records_Tr.xls in the
annexes
The outputs will be used in future forest management plans throughout Turkey, to be produced from 2012
onwards. The new forest management plans, which will include consideration of biodiversity, will thus benefit
butterflies on all candidate PBAs with forests.
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