June Haimoff
June Haimoff (MBE) (27 December 1922 – 23 April 2022) was an English environmentalist who lived in Dalyan in the Turkish province of Muğla. In the period from 1984 to 1988 she and fellow-environmentalists such as David Bellamy, Lily Venizelos, Günther Peter, Nergis Yazgan and Keith Corbett launched a successful campaign to preserve İztuzu Beach as a habitat for the endangered loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta). This beach is one of the main nesting places of the species in Turkey and the Mediterranean.
June Haimoff MBE | |
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Haimoff at the sea turtle centre at İztuzu Beach | |
| Born | Joan Christine Fairey 27 December 1922 Essex, England |
| Died | 23 April 2022 (aged 99) Dalyan, Turkey |
| Occupation | Environmentalist |
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