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| TURKISH ENVIRONMENT STATS: |
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Areas under protection
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78 |
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[54th of 146]
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Biodiversity richness
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2 |
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[31st of 53]
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Carbon efficiency
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1.31 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
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[61st of 141]
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CO2 Emissions
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223,862 |
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[21st of 178]
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Current issues
water pollution from dumping of chemicals and detergents; air pollution, particularly in urban areas; deforestation; concern for oil spills from increasing Bosporus ship traffic |
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Ecological footprint
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2.73 |
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[56th of 141]
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Endangered species protection
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66.7% |
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[75th of 141]
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Forest area > % of land area
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13.22 % of land area
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[137th of 195]
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Known mammal species
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116 |
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[75th of 145]
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Pollution > Carbon dioxide 1999
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54,174 |
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[24th of 199]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000
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55 |
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[24th of 25]
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Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita
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3 |
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[29th of 29]
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Pollution > Municipal Waste per capita
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330 |
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[26th of 29]
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Protected area
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0.4 |
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[134th of 147]
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SO2 emissions per populated area
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650 thousand metric tons/squ |
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[65th of 141]
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Threatened species
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70 |
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[25th of 158]
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Water > Availability
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2.59 thousand cubic metres |
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[74th of 141]
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Water > Freshwater pollution
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1.1 tons/cubic km |
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[31st of 69]
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions
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0.42 %
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[62nd of 114]
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Wildness
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0.64% |
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[92nd of 141]
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SOURCES: World Resources Institute; ; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; World Resources Institute. 2003. Carbon Emissions from energy use and cement manufacturing, 1850 to 2000. Available on-line through the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) at Washington, DC: World Resources Institute; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.; Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Report on National Reports Required Under Article VIII, Paragraph 7(a), of the Convention, Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Gigiri, Kenya, April 2000; World Development Indicators database; Gregg Marland, Tom Boden, and Bob Andres, University of North Dakota, via net publication; U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Annual, 2002, and International Energy Outlook, 2001; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium; Jacaranda Atlas; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with model IMAGE; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001 (for BOD emissions)and Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 (for data on waterquantity). via ciesin.org; Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the lastwild places on the earth's surface. via ciesin.org
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Turkey, Republic of Turkey, Turkiye Cumhuriyeti, Turkiye
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