Forests play a key role in combating the climate crisis and preserving biodiversity due to their functions in regulating the climate, producing water, preventing floods, avalanches, and overflows, and mitigating the effects of drought, as well as their rich biological diversity.
With this awareness, we launched the “Forest Fires Awareness Project” in the summer of 2022, aiming to draw lessons from past fires and raise public awareness on preventing forest fires.
In 2023, based on the fact that the vast majority of forest fires in Türkiye are caused by human activities, we focused on increasing awareness about the importance of preventing forest fires resulting from negligence and carelessness, especially during the summer months when fires are more frequent.
