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There are 19 Special Environmental Protection Areas in Türkiye and the surface area of these
areas is 3,832,959.54 hectares. There are 4,034 natural protected areas in Türkiye and the surface
area of these areas is 2,755,773 hectares. The total area of Special Environmental Protection Areas
corresponds to 4.9% of Türkiye and the total area of Natural Protected Areas corresponds to 3.5%
of Türkiye.

Table 90 Protected Areas under the Responsibility of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change
(MoEUCC, 2024)
PROTECTION STATUS PIECES AREA
1 Degree Natural Protected Area 639 639,621,23
st
2 Degree Natural Protected Area 232 32,694,11
nd
3 Degree Natural Protected Area 350 95,752,67
rd
PROTECTED Degree Unspecified 62 18,960,52
AREA Sensitive Area to be Strictly Protected 587 444,861,10
Qualified Natural Protected Area 1,159 869,812,51

Sustainable Conservation and Controlled Use Area 1,005 654,070,87
Special Environmental Protection Area (SEPA) 19 3,832,959,54
TOTAL 4,053 6,588,732,55

MONUMENTAL Monumental Tree 10,510
TREE AND CAVE Cave 296
* Includes data for February 2024.

Land, water or sea areas with protection status managed according to the relevant legislation in
order to ensure the protection and continuity of biological diversity, natural and related cultural
resources.

In Türkiye, conservation activities are carried out in areas with different statuses such as spe-
cial environmental protection areas, national parks, nature parks, nature reserves, nature mo-
numents, wildlife development areas, protection forest, seed stands, seed gardens and gene
conservation areas, agricultural enterprises, natural and archaeological sites, wetlands and bi-
osphere reserve areas.
Graph 59 Protected Areas under the Responsibility of MoAF (MoAF, 2024)

400
353
350
311
300
266
250
212
200
150
133
110
100
85
59 55 55
48
50
31
14
0
Area Wetlands of
Wildlife
Gene
National Nature Nature Nature Development RAMSAR Conservation Wetland of City (Urban) Protection Seed Seed
Garden
Forest
Forest
Local
National
Park Park Conservation Monument Importance Importance Forest Stand
Area
272