TEMA Foundation’s primary goal is to raise public awareness about the dangers of desertification resulting from widespread soil erosion within Turkey. The pursuit of this goal involves informing and lobbying governments, national representatives, political parties, educational institutions, official and private organizations, and the media. Accordingly, TEMA aims to create awareness among political parties that future access to power may rely on finding solutions to the erosion and the degradation of natural habitats currently taking place in Turkey. To further the potential electoral impact upon political parties, TEMA is also working to raise public awareness of the effect of soil erosion.
TEMA considers soil to be one of Turkey’s most precious resources and therefore pursues the implementation of a state environmental protection policy, which is necessary for the adequate protection of forests, grazing land, agricultural land, water and plant gene sources and the prevention of soil erosion. The achievement of these aims can only be possible with adequate human resources, technical equipment, organization and financial resources.
TEMA also aims to slow migration trends, whereby there is a significant population flow from rural to urban area, by increasing the productivity of agricultural lands and providing the population with an economic incentive to remain in rural areas.
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TEMA Foundation’s Objectives
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- To help the protection of natural habitats and health within the country, combating soil erosion, protection of soil and vegetative cover, education, raising public awareness and consciousness over soil erosion,
- To ensure that policies concerning the protection of natural habitats are created by the governments, that needed legal regulations are made, in order to create effective public support by informing and increasing public consciousness over soil erosion,
- To promote social responsibility toward forests and the environment in the community,
- To ensure the protection, improvement and establishment of natural habitats, human health, green lands, biodiversity, soil and vegetative cover and forests,
- To protect and ameliorate the pastures which are the major resource for livestock,
- To ensure Turkey’s future by protecting natural resources from unconscious and unsustainable use, thereby preventing the exhaustion of the natural resources,
- To start a model action in combating against soil erosion in Turkey, and to inspire the implementation of similar actions in other parts of the world,
- To work for the conservation and amelioration of natural habitats, green lands, soil and vegetative cover , pastures, the health within the country,
- To establish the necessary organization and legislation in the leadership of voluntary organizations in order to achieve the cited goals for combating erosion.