For three weeks, 200 ducks, but also of coots and seagulls, died at the Grandlieu Lake. The botulidme-related mortality.
“Botulism is a disease that produces a toxin and birds in is nourishing come become intoxicated and can quite quickly” explains Jean-Marc Gillier, the Director of the nature reserve of Grandlieu,”if it leaves in place the corpses” of birds dead, “soon we’ll have a string of contamination that will increase”.
The bodies of the dead birds are so picked up as and when “for a little break the chain” continues JM Gillier.
In 1995, the botulism caused the death of 30,000 birds to Grandlieu Lake. However, the current situation seems not to alarm because she would be under control.
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