The Orhanl? Village Culture Nature Youth and Sports Society stands for keeping culture and nature values alive, developing and establishing them. Especially, in order to contributing and promoting agriculture and breeding in the local, the society is continiuing it's studies on traditional and sustainable production styles.
In the end of these studies, it is observed that traditional olive pasturership had faced many threats. Therefore, a necessity to protect olive pasture's cultural practices and biodiversity. This necessity generated the background of the project. It is situated that these olive pastures started from Edremit-Ida Mountains- Dereli, Hac? Aslanlar, Ya?yer and Çamc?- villages to Mente?e Mountains. Olive hand map will be prepared and disseminated to the concernings with data getting from these fieldworks. Many visits, specified in the pilot regions, to producers, shephards and public establishments will be helded.
Aim of the project is protecting olive pastures with the knowledge and help of local people. A short film will be made that familiarizes Aegean Olive pastures. Local people, producers and public establishments' sensibility will be increased by meetings, talks. A user-friendly producer guide will be prepared to transfer the local knowledge exactly, getting from meetings and fieldworks, to next generation. An applied education will be carried out to tell the younger generation the importance of olive pastures and their protection. It is inevitable that using local knowledge and protecting olive pastures with local people is vital to provide sustainability.