“They thought they could chase Flamingo as a goal, because they are not even a prey,” says the head of Thessaly’s protected areas management unit
With shotguns he lost his life a few days ago on Karla Lake, one of the largest wetlands in the country that rage rare and protected species.
The dead animal was already examined by the experts, and according to the head of the Thessaly Protected Management Unit, Dimitris Michalakis, “the incident has been repeated in the past, with two other incidents, when the management body was still.” As “a bad practice of unconscious hunter”, Mr. Michalakis described the fact, stressing that it is not a matter of protection in the area, since the species itself is protected and should not be hunted, while stressing that it is not all the industry, of course, all the industry, all the industry, Hunters, who work in this way, but these have worked so and “they thought they could chase the flamingo as a goal, because they are not even a prey”.
Regarding the competent bodies, he stressed that “all bodies in Greece have come under the umbrella of the Natural Environment and Climate Change and thus provides a uniform treatment in the protected areas of the Natura Network and better coordination than to have different policies. practiced by the then boards of the former bodies. ” Asked about the measures, but also about the checks, he noted that “obviously to find this animal dead, the area is controlled”, adding that “he who is doing so, he knows that he is illegitimate and taking the measures. of. So imagine that there can be no guard 24 hours a day per square kilometer of the area. Especially our own area is huge. It covers the whole of Thessaly. “
In closing, he emphasized that there is a protection framework, giving an example of the Guardian program that makes corresponding checks focused on each county, but “there are some who believe they can operate beyond law”. At the same wavelength are the statements of biologist Oipka, Costas Vergou, who emphasized the importance of the artificial water supply for the ornithopan, where large numbers of birds, protected and not, are gathered throughout the year, both during the year, both during the year, They are overwhelmed, such as the period we are going through, as well as during the reproductive period “, and added that” I wanted to emphasize the particularity of the artificial waterproof, whether it is a shallow wetland with plenty of food that attracts species that cannot be deeper water. Also, flamingos are a pole of attraction, as well as other species for visitors to the area, it is the natural wealth, where tens of hundreds of sensitized citizens gather to watch such species. “
