Dear colleagues and friends,
On this Earth Day, I ask your support to save one of Turkey's most
important wetlands, the Aras River wetlands that is also my long-term
ornithological research site. We have documented 240 of Turkey's 470
bird species here, and 40% of all of Turkey's land vertebrate
species. This site meets 4 different criteria of a Ramsar wetland of
global importance but is about to be destroyed by a dam. Further
details are in the petition below and I'd be grateful if you can sign
it in less than a minute.
<https://www.change.org/petitions/save-and-protect-turkey-s-arasriverbirdparadise-cbabdullahgul-rt-erdogan-veyseleroglu-sinan-ogan>https://www.change.org/petitions/save-and-protect-turkey-s-arasriverbirdparadise-cbabdullahgul-rt-erdogan-veyseleroglu-sinan-ogan
Thank you,
Cagan Sekercioglu, Ph.D.
University of Utah
Department of Biology
257 S. 1400 E. Rm. 201
Salt Lake City, UT. 84112
*Email: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]*
www.sekercioglu.org
