Biodiversity includes in gene, species and ecosytems which build life in the world. Life quality, power of economic competition, employment and security depend on only this riches. Biodiversity - “ecosystem facilities” - are crucially important for the services obtained by the nature: Regulation of the climate, fertility of water, air and land, manufacturing of food, fuel, fiber and medicine are all fundamental for the protection of agricultere and fishery in the long scale. Moreover, many industrial process and new medicines are based on this structure.
The most concrete information on biodiversity is that every year hundreds of species have been living their own doomsday in other words individuals have been extincting. Thus, protection of biodiversity should be discussed as an existence case for the level of individuals and governments. Almost all the duties of the present species in the ecological process are grasped by human beings. A loss in the ecosystem brings destructive effects for the susutainability of the species. Thus, sustainability of the biodiversity is scrutinized in the management level with the convention that Türkiye is signotary to.
The topography ascending from 0 meter to 1000 meters is one of most important factors affecting the landscape of Gokova. Marine-coastal ecosystems, island ecosystems, forestry and maquis habitats and wetlands with different types, reeds, marshes, sand dunes are some of the habitats that you can meet in Gökova. These different habitat mosaics have cardinal importance for sustainability of the species and their habitats.
The population structure of Gökova SPA which is about 309 km2 is more destructive in terms of habitat destruction when compared with other coastal zones due to the daily recreational activities. However, discussing area usage activities in the level of management and within this frame, sustainability of biodiversity is among the targets of the project. Within Gökova Integrated Coastal and Marine Management Planning Project the key and priortized species are listed below :
- Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus)
- River Otter (Lutra lutra)
- Audouin's Gull (Larus audouiini)
- Eleonarae's falcon (Falco eleonarae)
- White-breasted Kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis)
- Rüeppell’s Warbler (Sylvia rueppelli)
- Sandbar Shark (C. Plumbeus)
- Grouper (Epinephelus quaza)
- White Grouper (Epinephelus aeneus)
- Black Grouper (Epinephelus alexandrinus)
- Common Dentex (Dentex dentex)
- Sea Meadow (Posidonia oceanica
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