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years from the year it became a party, is the management and scientific authority, controls trade
by issuing CITES Permits for species listed in the CITES appendices and their parts and derivati-
ves, regularly submits annual and biennial reports to the Secretariat on behalf of the country and
carries out its practices in accordance with the terms of the Convention.

Graph 55 Distribution of the Number of CITES Documents Issued by Years (MoAF, 2024)

3,500 3,116
3,000 2,791
2,500 2,275 2,262
2,000 1,575 1,904 2,087 2,107 2,098 2,032 1,773
1,500 1,241 1,430
1,000
500
0
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Some of our smuggled species are endemic species that grow only in Türkiye and are therefore
even more important. In order to prevent the smuggling of species, in order to raise awareness
on CITES applications and species, Inspection and Conservation Officers working in the Ministry
of Trade are regularly trained in Ankara several times a year and the importance of the issue is
explained.

The CITES Database (CITES Application System) has been in use since 1 January 2016. Through
this database, CITES Permit Documents are issued electronically in a much faster way (citesbas-
vuru.tarimorman.gov.tr). The system can be accessed via e-government. CITES Database is also
integrated into the TPS (Single Window System) of the Ministry of Trade.

F.2.2. Studies carried out within the scope of the European Landscape Convention

Since 2000, we have been a party to the European Landscape Convention, which is carried out
by the “Committee on Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP)” of the Council of Europe, and
40 countries have become parties to date. The Convention is the first international treaty in
Europe to address landscapes with all their characteristics. It covers landscapes that are consi-
dered to be outstanding with their characteristics as well as ordinary or degraded landscapes.
MoAF is the focal point of the Convention.

In order to fulfil the obligations of the Convention and to transfer the rich natural and cultural
landscape diversity and heritage values of Türkiye to future generations by considering the con-
servation-use balance, it is necessary to prepare a national landscape inventory, to define and
classify the landscape, and to determine protection and development strategies. For this purpo-
se, the project studies, which were initiated at local scale in Konya and transferred to provincial
scale in Malatya, have been carried to basin scale with the landscape atlas preparation studies.

In this context, the Büyük Menderes Basin, which was initiated in 2018 within the scope of ex-
panding the “Basin Landscape Atlas” projects to other basins, was completed in 2021. The met-
hod used in the preparation of the Yeşilırmak Basin Landscape Atlas was developed and used in
this project.

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