Creating a haven along Turkey’s Turquoise Coast with Zafer Kizilkaya

“Even in ten years we changed the entire ecosystem in Gökova Bay and fisheries.” The world’s oceans have been depleted of many important species through overfishing. Removing parts of the sea’s ecosystem and the introduction of invasive species can have far reaching consequences both in and on the water. Zafer Kizilkaya is an award winning conservationist. In 2012 he founded the Mediterranean Conservation Society which built and oversaw Turkey’s first community-managed Marine Protected A...