Sunday 9 December 2007

Rovigo: environmentalists protest poisoning of Flamingos: "Stop hunting in the Po Delta, remove the tons of lead from the polluted area !"


A group of Italian environmentalists made a protest march with flags, signs and banners at Porto Caleri, Po Delta, on saturday 8th December. They made it against hunting in the Po Delta, that is still carried out using lead bullets that are poisoning to death for the second year dozens of Flamingos. Moreover they stop at Rovigo for collecting signatures of hundreds of citizens to promote the establishment of a National Park by banning hunters from the Po Delta. Finally, today 7 more dead Flamingos were found at Valle Pozzatini a 1 at the Comacchio salina.


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