1.5 million lira fine to 6 people who collected illegal salep onions 6 people who collected rare and protected salep onions in Elazığ were fined 1 million 464 thousand liras for destroying biological diversity. Teams from the Provincial Gendarmerie Command and the Elazığ Branch of Nature Conservation and National Parks took action on the information that salep onions were collected in the urban countryside. As a result of the study, 6 people who collected 50 kilograms of salep onions in the field were caught red-handed. These people were fined 1 million 464 thousand liras. The teams carried out the replanting of salep onions in the area where they were collected.