Final Report October 2011 for the BBI-Matra/2008/015 ... - Vlindernet

Chapter 1 / Introduction
1.1. Background information
This project has started in the beginning of 2009 and was successfully finished in
June 2011 as planned. The progress during 2009, the first project year, has been
good, with the only real bottleneck in building commitment and involving the key
stakeholders, particularly people in central government and among the high
scientific circles in Turkey. In 2010, the second year of the project, work was
focused on developing the outputs, and drawing on the network of contacts,
expertise and expanding the project impact on the butterfly conservation in the
country. During the 2011, last project year, the focus was on finalizing the
products in the most efficient and effective way and bringing them to the wide
audience.
The project aimed establishing and developing the basis for the active
conservation of Turkey’s butterflies. This aim can be seen back in the project
objectives, products and the approach as well as in the activities conducted. The
project had to start from zero and accomplish the first basic steps for the further
development of the best practise concept for conservation of a certain group. So
far, the project achieved this main goal and we are proud to share the
experiences and the lessons learned in this challenging process.
Experts from Europe and US were involved in
brainstorming together with DKM on the first
Red List in Turkey, setting the bases for
butterfly conservation there.
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