Thursday, September 8, 2011

Algeria looking for the causes of deaths of wild ducks

September 8, 2011

Looking Pasteur Institute, the largest centers of medical research and diversity in Algeria, the day before yesterday, the reasons for the deaths of nearly a hundred of wild ducks swimming in a protected natural wetland state Daira ostrich west of the country.

Was found last Thursday on 85 dead ducks at once close to the lake and found about 20, respectively, all bleeding from the beak and feathers flying and frozen limbs and wings.

The initial analysis took place in a local laboratory and found that dead ducks free of bird flu virus, also underwent tests of the lake and proved to be contaminated.

And Abdel-Kader Allali, an official in the province of Forestry, which oversees protected for the installation of permanent monitoring cell is made up of agents of the province, forestry and environment sector and Baatrh and associations active in the protection of wildlife along the national gendarmerie, to assist in the investigation.

The cell works round the clock to follow the developments of the situation pending the outcome of the upcoming analysis of the Pasteur Institute for the cause of death of such a large number of birds at once.

And wild ducks live and breed in the lake Hza has never recorded the phenomenon of this kind. At least in the last ten years since the classification of protected internationally under the Ramsar Convention.

The ten permanent guards surround the Navy from each side tells the people, especially pastoralists, on the grounds that the region is pastoral, with the risk and prevent children from swimming in it.

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