Completed Projects

PLANTS

Beneficial Plants (Ethnobotany) Project

The science of ethnobotany, which consists of the words ethnology (cultural science) and botany (plant science), aims to determine the purpose of the plants specific to a region by the people of that region.

By KuzeyDoğa Association,

  • To teach ethnobotanical research techniques to the students of the region and to popularize the subject
  • Identify the plants used by the people for various purposes

In May-June 2006, villages in the region were visited and more than 500 questionnaires about the use of plants were conducted and over 1300 plant samples of 83 species were collected.

Plant Drawing Course

The greatest need for many activities in nature, such as zoology (zoology), botany (botany), entomology (entomology), bird watching, insect collecting, nature tourism and plant photography, is field guides that make it possible to recognize these creatures. It is not possible to identify these creatures and carry out these activities without these guides consisting of information and pictures about these creatures. Since it is very difficult or even impossible to take photographs of a quality that allows 100% identification of many species, professional drawings are often used in these guides. Technical life drawing (illustration) is an important branch of art in countries such as the USA and Europe, and art faculties provide the necessary training in this field.

As KuzeyDoğa Association, we ended the plant drawing courses that we started in 2006 in July 2009. During this period, 50 people from various provinces and universities of Turkey were taught plant drawing and a successful work was carried out to eliminate the deficiency in this field, which has only 3 experts in Turkey. Since 2006, 158 plants from 146 species of common, rare or endemic plants growing in Kars have been illustrated and brought to the world of science by KuzeyDoğa Association.
Among these plants, Allium czelghauricum (Endemic) was rediscovered in our country after 100 years and illustrated.
REHABILITATION

Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center

Every year thousands of wild animals in Turkey need treatment and care for various reasons. As a result of the lack of a center where the treatment and care of wild animals will be carried out, unauthorized and uninformed people try to intervene in these animals, and as a result, animals suffer more harm than good. As a result of these wrong interventions, the possibility of the animal’s recovery is either reduced or completely eliminated.

For this reason, Kafkas University Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center was officially established on 29.09.2011 within the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Kafkas University with the protocol signed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks, Kafkas University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Northern Nature Association. Kafkas University is the first university in Turkey to run a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center established under a university.