Located between the point where the Ceyhan River flows into the sea and the Yumurtalık Bay, Yumurtalık Lagoons is a wetland system protected by the Ramsar Convention and has a complex structure with fresh and salt water marshes, wide barren plains, mud flats, reeds, wet meadows, dunes and Aleppo pine forest.
On the other hand, the Implementation of the Yumurtalık Lagoons Management Plan Project was carried out in the Yumurtalık district of Adana province between years 2008 and 2013 with the support of the Environmental Investment Program of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Company.
Yumurtalık Lagoons Management Plan is considered as one of the successful examples of wetland management plans prepared in Turkey and the implementation project has been prepared with the aim of ensuring its implementation with the active participation of all parties.
With the implementation project the aim is;
• To establish monitoring and control mechanisms for the conservation/improvement of sensitive habitats in the area and for the biodiversity that depends on these habitats,
• To raise awareness among the local people in order to carry out socio-economic activities compatible with the area,
• To make the participatory mechanisms foreseen in the management plan functional by strengthening them,
• To create various tools to be used for spreading information about nature conservation throughout the country.
