A sustainable model in the Aegean: coal mine field converted to organic olive plantation

As the Turkish government gave its blessings to energy and construction companies to build new facilities anywhere across the country, felling trees and plundering nature to erect coal plants, mines or tourism complexes has increasingly become the norm in recent years … The vast plunder of natural areas in the country can give way to despair, but an exception proving the rule exists in the agricultural province of Aydın, on the Aegean coast.