Seyfe Bird Paradise dries up

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The Seyfe Lake Bird Paradise, which is included in the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands, and under protection as a National Park, has dried up and turned into arid land. 

The lake in the Central Anatolian province of Kırşehir, where some 50 different bird species incubate, 182 bird species take shelter and 25 bird species stop by on their migration route, dried up because of unimplemented plans and untaken decisions, even though warning bells were ringing. 

The lake also dried up in December 2006 and survived after rescue efforts but plans to prevent a future occurrence had not been implemented and now the lake has completely dried up again over a period of four months, according to Aqua Saravenas Kırşehir Environmental Ecology Education and Research Association President Mustafa Bağ. “Officials watched as it was dying,” he added. 

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