KuzeyDoğa

KuzeyDoğa (Northeastern Nature) is a Turkish conservation non-governmental organization operating primarily in the far eastern section of the country, with a focal area ranging from the shores of the Black Sea to Mount Ağrı (Ararat).

The organization was initially created in 2003 as the Kars-Iğdır Biodiversity Project by the biology professor Çağan H. Şekercioğlu, who subsequently founded KuzeyDoğa in January 2008.

[5] In January 2012, the Ministry of Forest and Water Management created the country's first wildlife corridor in the Northeastern Anatolia region (81 kilometer-long, 23,533 hectares) following KuzeyDoğa's 2008 proposition.

[6] The organization asked the Ministry of Forest and Water Management to drop the Tuzluca Dam project, which threatened the wetland harboring bird wildlife in the Aras Valley.

The team was alerted by the fact that raccoon dogs and other similar animals were identified as potential carriers and spreaders of the COVID-19.