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Forests in Turkey
Woodland and maquis in the Eurasian country / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For orchards, see Agriculture in Turkey.
Forests now cover less than a third of Turkey. After the glaciers reteated the land became mostly wooded, but over thousands of years people cut down many trees. Forests are almost all state-owned and vary from temperate rainforest in the north-east to maquis in the south and west. Pines, fir, oak and beech are common.
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The country is slowly reforesting, which is good both for the wildlife of Turkey, and to absorb carbon to help the country limit climate change. In the mid-2020s the main income is from wood, and forests are also important for recreation. But they are threatened by drought, wildfire, mining, and pests and diseases.