TRIBUNNEWS.COM – Outbreak of bird flu in Israel north killed at least 5,200 migrating cranes.
In the aftermath, breeders have culled hundreds of thousands of chickens to prevent further transmission.
Uri Naveh, senior scientist at the Parks and Nature Authority Israel said the situation of the bird flu outbreak was not under control.
“Many birds (storks) die in the middle of a body of water making it difficult to remove,” he said on Monday, quoted from SCMP.
Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg called the crisis “the most serious damage to wildlife in the country’s history”.
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“The extent of the damage remains unclear,” he tweeted.
Meanwhile, Yaron Michaeli, a spokesman for Hula Lake Park, where the stork population is concentrated, said workers were removing the stork carcasses as quickly as possible.
He was worried that bird flu could spread to other animals.
Ministry of Agriculture spokeswoman Dafna Yurista said half a million chickens in the region had also been culled to prevent the spread of the disease.
About 500,000 cranes pass through Israel every year on the way to Africa.
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