On behalf of NATURA (The Society for The Conservation of Nature and Culture, TURKIYE) and the Rufford Foundation, it is our great pleasure to notice you about the Rufford Foundation’s Conference in Turkey which was held on 15th and 16thd May, 2017 in Koycegiz, Mugla-TURKEY. This was one of many RSGF conferences held all over the World with main reason to share our experience during the projects and to connect RSGF winners, as well as to gather all of them for the pleasant and motivating meeting.
Particularly, this Mediterranean conference was organized by connecting the Mediterranean countries (Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Palestinan Territory, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Egypt) which have received support from RSGF so far. Except of those countries also we invited some recipients from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Armenia and Iran.
The motto of this conference was: "Nature Connects to Harmony of Civilizations" regarding to remains of the Ancient Mediterranean Basin.
Participants were able to present projects results of their research via oral presentation. We also hoped that they would actively participate on our round tables where we all shared our good and bad experiences regarding to the RSGF projects and go through some main and important issues which were later going to be useful for future RSGF applicants and ourselves.
