According to Minister of Forestry and Water Affairs Veysel Eroğlu, 381,096 trees will be felled to make room for the bridge, the highway and its viaducts. However, Sundays Zaman reporters who visited the area say trees have been felled at places where, according to the project, there should be viaducts. Both experts and locals who live in the forest villages here are certain that within two years, the area will be covered with concrete. The songs of the forests birds are already being drowned in the loud hum of massive bulldozers. todayszaman//news-329202-scale-of-destruction-in-istanbul-forests-increasingly-visible.html
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:43:57 +0000
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