Israel: Park staff clear crane carcasses from Hula Lake after bird flu outbreak

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Staff from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority collected hundreds upon hundreds of crane carcasses in the Hula Lake Reserve in northern Israel on Sunday, after an outbreak of bird flu was located in the reserve.

Wearing protective gear, the workers could be seen fishing corpses of cranes out of the lake in an attempt to contain the spread of H5N1 among the thousands of birds that settle in the area during the migration periods in summer and spring.

The area around Hula Lake attracts tens of thousands of birds annually, including thousands of cranes, as the animals are being fed there in order to keep them away from commercial crop fields during their migration from Europe south towards Africa.

“We discovered 50 to 100 dead cranes two weeks ago. A few days after thousands died. At the moment there are 5,000 to 6,000 cranes, some died and some are dying.” stated head of the regional Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Amir Antler.

H5N1 is fatal for birds and can also infect cats and humans. The outbreak in the reserve came as bird flu is rampaging through Moshav Margaliot on the Lebanese border, where more than half a million egg-laying chickens have fallen victim to the disease or have been culled.

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SOT, Amir Antler, Regional director at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Hebrew): “We discovered 50 to 100 dead cranes two weeks ago, a few days after thousands died. At the moment there are 5,000 to 6,000 cranes, some have died and some are dying.”

SOT, Amir Antler, Regional director at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Hebrew): “The treatment we do is closing the area, and then we collect the corpses. We don’t treat ill or dying animals, as we don’t have the knowledge regarding a flock of rural birds, whether they can overcome the flu. So at the moment, we only remove the corpses.”

SOT, Amir Antler, Regional director at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Hebrew): “When we came here we got ready to clear of all the 24,000 cranes, but at the moment we are not there yet, I hope we won’t get there, we still don’t know when rural animals react to the avian flu.”

SOT, Amir Antler, Regional director at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Hebrew): “We have never faced such a big event. The cranes arrived from the north during their migration, and in October the avian flu was identified in Europe. The cranes brought it here during the migration to Africa, as they stop here on the way.”

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