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Chapter 7 / Problems and dilemmas implementing the plan
There were various problems and dilemmas, the project team had to tackle during the work,
but finally all were arranged and solutions found. Most of them are explained in details in
Chapter 3.4 presenting the activities.
One of the most significant problems were the changes in the nature conservation policy in
Turkey, that caused limited interest to the efforts of the NGO sector in the country towards
biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
The Turkish NGOs are not happy with the new nature conservation law and do not believe
that it will be a tool for better conservation of nature. NGOs (including DKM) have thus
formed a union against this new law with the ultimate aim of changing it while it is in
parliament. Suspicions about the new law have already been voiced in the most recent EU
Enlargement Report for Turkey.
Against this background it has been impossible to develop a as productive as we aimed
relationship with the Directorate, but they remain the single most important government
body in relation to implementation of this project’s outputs. There are also grave concerns
that if the new Nature Conservation Law is implemented without change it will be rather
difficult to use the project’s outputs to take butterfly conservation forward in the near
future.
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