Science & Tech · Science & Environment · 1 day ago
Sea turtle protections help beach lilies spread at Çıralı
Çıralı Beach is a nesting area for sea turtles.
Protection measures include keeping vehicles off the beach.
Sea lilies, once numbering only three to five, have spread across nearly the whole shore in the past three years.
The measures appear to have helped both wildlife and plants.
Measures to protect sea turtles at Çıralı Beach in Antalya’s Kemer district have coincided with a major increase in sea daffodils.
The sea daffodil, Pancratium maritimum, had previously numbered only a few plants at the beach.
A protection and monitoring protocol was made between the General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks’ 6th Regional Directorate and the Ulupınar Environmental Protection, Development and Business Cooperative.
Over the past three years, sea daffodils have spread across almost the entire beach.
Closing the beach to vehicle traffic was identified as a measure that helped the plants increase.
- Who
- The General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks’ 6th Regional Directorate and the Ulupınar Environmental Protection, Development and Business Cooperative
- What
- Sea turtle protection measures have coincided with a sharp increase in sea daffodils
- When
- Over the past three years
- Where
- Çıralı Beach, Kemer district, Antalya, Türkiye
- Why
- Measures including closing the beach to vehicle traffic helped protect the beach habitat
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- Location
- Çıralı Beach, in Kemer district, Antalya
- Earlier sea daffodil count
- No more than 3–5 plants in previous years
- Period of spread
- The past three years
- Reported extent
- Sea daffodils spread across almost the entire beach
- Key measure
- The beach was closed to vehicle traffic
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