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Two women start duty as Turkish mountain guides
Two women start duty as Turkish mountain guides
The breathtaking highlands of Turkey’s Black Sea province of Rize have welcomed two women as official guides of the national park. Click through for the story in photos...
Twenty-eight men and two women have graduated from the latest class of guide school for Kaçkar Mountains National Park, Demirören News Agency reported on Sept. 4.
The park inside the coveted Fırtına (Storm) Valley encompasses 33 highland plateaus and nine villages. (Photo: Westend61 GmbH / Alamy)
It was listed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as one of 200 locations across the globe that requires protection for its unique flora, fauna and ecosystem.
Forty-three-year-old Mükime Türkyılmaz, one of the newly graduated women guides, is a local of Çat village in the valley.
Field guides help tourists to learn about the local habitat, while also preserving nature, Türkyılmaz told the agency.
“One of our particular concerns is plastic waste thrown around the national park by tourists. Unfortunately, we can only warn them as we have no legal authority to enforce any sanctions,” she added.
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