Between 2012 and 2014, with support of COMDEX programme a ?species conservation action plan? was prepared by Nature Research Society and Datça Environmental Society (DAÇEV) in order to conserve and maintain survival of 5 different endangered or threatened mammal species in Datça-Bozburun Peninsula, together with active contribution of NGO?s, public institutions, conservation scietists, and local field occupants.
In the action plan, 4 goals and 20 activities were planned in 5 years. Many institutions and organizations have taken direct or indirect responsibilities in the action plan.
This projects? main priority is to establish and functionalize the ?Action Plan Steering Committee? which supports the implementation of action plan by establishing an efficient organization, cooperation and communication between the organizations and institutions which took direct or indirect responsibility in the action plan. Also there are two important activities for the implementation of the action plan. Awareness raising activities will be carried out for the key stakeholders about the mammal species in action plan in order to maintain the implementation and sustainability of action plan activities. Secondly, awareness raising and informative activities are planned for apiarists to remove conlicts with bears and promote dispersion of an electroconvulsive fence system for an examplary beehive which has been succeeded previously various places in Turkey.