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Volunteers from the Black Stork Ornithological Group, Verdemar, Agaden and the Somos Tarifa Platform, with the support of numerous local ornithologists, have found a high number of dead birds, Alcas (Alca torda) and Gaviotas (Larus michahellis) in the Bay of Algeciras and the Strait of Gibraltar.
Following the monitoring campaign organized by the various environmental associations as a result of the breakdown of the 400,000 volt high voltage cable that Red Eléctrica de España (REE) maintains to transport energy through the Strait of Gibraltar, ecologists have discovered numerous Dead birds and even many of them have appeared impregnated in a rosaceous oil, according to the ecologists.
The Black Stork Ornithological Collective has given notice to the Regional Ministry of Environment of the Andalusian Government for the birds found to be transferred to the Center for Recovery of Threatened Species (CREA) to analyze the possible causes of the massive mortality.
Las Alcas are migratory Atlantic birds that spend the winter in the Mediterranean crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. The significant number of birds of this species that have been found dead in the area is alarming since they have been found almost a dozen of them dead in a few days and kilometers of coast.
The conservation associations of the Field of Gibraltar expect that the analyzes that can realize the Andalusian administration serve to determine if the deaths have been able to produce by the breakage of the Cable of High Tension of REE or by other circumstances still unknown.
Courtesy of elestrechodigital.com
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