The Affiliation of Biologists identified that the Haspolat Wetland, which has the very best significance by way of chook variety on the island, has been critically broken in current days, and argued that the world was destroyed by collective efforts.
Affiliation President Hatice Benan said in her written assertion that they may proceed to analysis the difficulty and can take it to worldwide platforms, together with the European Union of Biologists.
Benan said that wetlands, which host many species with excessive ecological worth, wealthy plant and animal variety, particularly fish and water birds, are thought of biodiversity reservoirs which can be important for the survival of people and different residing issues, and drew consideration to the truth that 40 % of the residing species on the earth dwell and reproduce in wetlands.
Noting that greater than a 3rd of the world's wetlands have disappeared since 1980, Benan mentioned, “Except vital modifications are made, the disappearance of wetlands might trigger severe harm worldwide and plenty of species might turn into extinct. As a result of the primary elements threatening wetlands are drying up on account of building and numerous human interventions.”
Hatice Benan, who said that the wetlands within the nation additionally share this destiny, mentioned, “Nonetheless, there are greater than 40 wetlands, a lot of that are protected by the Environmental Legislation. Nonetheless, the water stage in nearly all of them has decreased considerably and a few wetlands comparable to Gönyeli Pond, Kanlıköy Pond, Değirmenlik Pond have nearly fully disappeared.”
-“Since 1976, 75 % of the world has been decreased”
Benan famous that though it’s legally a “Purification Facility”, Haspolat Wetland, which is of main significance by way of chook variety not solely within the north but additionally on the entire island, with 59 totally different chook species it hosts, as revealed by scientific research, has been critically broken in current days. Benan said that the power and its swimming pools, that are operated by the Nicosia Turkish and Greek Municipalities, have been shrunk throughout the framework of the undertaking initiated with the financing of the United Nations Growth Program (UNDP).
Benan, who said that the birds and different residing species within the space, particularly the flamingos, will disappear within the course of, reminded that this undertaking was strongly criticized by the Biologists Affiliation on each platform.
-“It’s unacceptable for us to exclude the Biologists Affiliation from the method”
Benan said that the “Water Chook Monitoring Program” carried out by the Affiliation between 2007 and 2010 was financed by UNDP and that the significance of the world for water birds was demonstrated with detailed knowledge, and continued as follows:
“Alternatively, it’s incomprehensible that UNDP assets are being spent on the destruction of such an necessary wetland. When there may be such scientific knowledge, it’s unacceptable for us that neither the undertaking managers nor the Nicosia Turkish Municipality exclude the Biologists Affiliation, which has proven by way of its research that it has a say on this space, from the method.”
-Criticism in direction of Harmancı…
Benan claimed that the Nicosia Turkish Municipality and Mayor Mehmet Harmancı, who had been in shut contact with them on numerous points, didn’t inform the Affiliation that such a undertaking would begin, and famous that this was “extraordinarily thought-provoking”.
Benan said that the civil society group that the municipality was mentioned to have consulted additionally expressed its discomfort with the ultimate level the undertaking had reached in a press launch, and continued as follows:
“In a habitat the place 75 % of the wetland might be destroyed, environmental elements comparable to meals sources, breeding and sheltering areas will lower, and the remaining habitat will attain its carrying capability, and the environmental resistance that may emerge will trigger a dramatic lower within the populations of many creatures, particularly flamingos, that dwell or come to remain within the area, and maybe even trigger their full extinction. Regardless of these, we might have anticipated the Nicosia Turkish Municipality to a minimum of inform our affiliation in regards to the starting of the undertaking and request us to be observers. On this means, a minimum of there can be no query of dozers getting into the wetland whereas the flamingos are within the space.”
Affiliation President Benan, who mentioned, “Whatever the motive, the EU, UN-UNDP and the Nicosia Turkish Municipality, which supplied assist for such a undertaking, should not the one ones accountable,” argued that the Environmental Safety Division and the related Ministry acted opposite to what the “Flora and Fauna Safety Ordinance” ordered relating to the Haspolat Remedy Plant, regardless of it being some of the necessary biodiversity areas on the island. Affiliation President Benan criticized the truth that the Environmental Safety Division didn’t see the necessity for an EIA report for such a undertaking.
Benan, who famous that, other than the current work to cut back the dimensions of the prevailing swimming pools, the 2 largest swimming pools within the space with 5 totally different swimming pools within the facility have lengthy been dried and are actually being became a rubbish assortment space, inflicting severe environmental air pollution, mentioned, “It will not be incorrect to say that the EU, the Municipality and the Authorities are collectively destroying the pure life in Haspolat.”
