Albania’s Coastal Wetlands: Killing Field for Migrating Birds

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Albania’s Buna Delta — one of the largest remaining wetlands in all of the Balkan Peninsula. Photo source: ©© eutrophication&hypoxia

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Albania’s wetlands are officially protected under national and international agreements, but signs of illegal harvesting are abundant, suggesting a far different reality.

A recent analysis by the environmental group Wetlands International, concluded that as many as one-third of all birds using the Black Sea-Mediterranean Flyway — an area that includes the Adriatic Flyway, a key migratory route along the Adriatic’s eastern shores — are now in decline, in large part due to illegal hunting…

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