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Türkiye: still growing construction boom endangers forests

Türkiye: still growing construction boom endangers forests

In a recently published statistic and statement on the development of forest stocks in Turkey, the Global Forest Watch institute came up with worrying figures - since 2000 around 164,000 hectares of forest have disappeared.

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