The number of birds affected rises to 221 for him possible bilge in the Galician coasts. The second report published by the Habitat Naturalist Group on Beaches, it points out that 136 were found in the province of A Coruña.
Pollution is reaching the coasts of Asturias. Ecologists from that community and Adega attribute what happened to a bilge.
The condition is having a special impact on the wintering population of ‘Ara parrot’, a species listed as vulnerable. The substances found vary between fuel, chemicals and a sticky orange oil with an unpleasant odor.
“From official sources reported that in principle there are no stains in the sea, but what is popularly called sentinazo, that banks clean bilges or warehouses of fuel or hydrocarbons in the open sea, are usually amounts that are not very large and not they are like a big oil spill, so they are very difficult to detect and may not be seen with means of detection. All we can say is that something is there, “he said. Atocha Ramos, of the naturalist group Habitat.
Habitat notes that the problems are fundamentally affecting birds. It will establish a device to continue collecting animals and data on the disease that is decreasing. Environmental groups ask the authorities to investigate the causes of this situation.
Birds affected also on the Orzán beach
Ecologists and naturalists warn that specimens have been found in a very wide area that goes from A Guarda to Mariña Lugo, with cases on the Costa da Morte and Orzán beach. They note that mainly puffins have been found, but also seagulls. Calls on administrations to investigate and act. Regarding the injured specimens, the Xunta reports that 14 birds are receiving care at the Santa Cruz-Oleiros Recovery Center.
The Association for the Ecological Defense of Galicia, Adega, considers in a note that “the high number of specimens and the extension of the affected coast suggests a significant dumping of waste and oil into the sea, probably from a bilge”.
One of the members of Habitat, Damien RomayHe told Radio Coruña Cadena SER that “year after year they are dying.” Sometimes there are a few copies, but on other occasions, like this year, more than a hundred are counted. Environmental organizations estimate that the localized birds could be only ten percent of the total affected.
Criticisms of the Galician Ornithological Society
The Galician Ornithological Society has expressed its “astonishment” at the “silence” of the Xunta “in the face of the alarming mortality of seabirds that is taking place these days” on the coasts of Galicia. “It seems as if the Xunta de Galicia has decided to leave this information task in the hands of citizens and NGOs, showing a clear attitude of negligence for this problem,” he said in a statement.
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