One shocking story follows another this week. First we had the reports from the UK highlighting the idiots who have been attaching bird deterrent spikes along tree branches to protect their precious cars below from bird droppings - and now comes this news from Spain of a distinctly hideous event that has gone largely unreported.
The city authorities in Barcelona took the startling decision to gas nearly a thousand wild pigeons, spinelessly employing a 'specialised control company' to carry out the massacre under the supervision of the ASPB (Barcelona Public Health Authority). But a bird-loving blogger watched the despicable act and broke the shocking news to his horrified audience. The ASPB gave the order to kill 950 birds, which must surely represent a significant percentage of Barcelona's pigeon population, as part of its plans to stage a Municipal Christmas Fair in the Plaza Catalunya, a city square ironically famous for its pigeons. Defending its decision, the Health Authority claimed that the birds posed an 'exceptional health risk', something which has been strongly challenged by ornithological experts. In Barcelona alone, a staggering 60,000 wild pigeons are exterminated every single year. To callously dispatch so many wild birds in this way is clearly outrageous and illustrates the contempt some people have for the wildlife around them. Murdering the birds to make way for a Christmas Fair is particularly vulgar and offensive. When a thousand wild birds are casually gassed because they are 'in the way' of a temporary street market - and the atrocity goes unreported in the world's press - then I fear for the future of our wildlife. Such cold-blooded cruelty is both sickening and disturbing and, alas, appears to be a growing trend.
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Debbie Macmillan
23/12/2017 08:15:28 pm
I am totally sickened by this cruelness to all these pigeons who were trapped by their own popularity to those who love feeding them and they became tame. Perhaps they would have flown away quick enough to escape the gas if they'd been completely wild, but we'll never know.
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sabine
25/12/2017 09:04:05 pm
well, no:
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Babett weber
24/12/2017 12:59:47 am
This is absolutely shocking....what a disgrace ... humans we are not ....
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Magda
24/12/2017 10:25:44 am
This is real christmas spirit. Sick and evil psychopats.
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Tina
25/12/2017 02:28:00 am
Absolutely disgusting....
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Meg Nair
25/12/2017 03:30:24 am
Terribly disappointing. Here in Australia they routinely cull cockatoos because they bite stuff. Why do we get to kill wildlife because they are out just being themselves. Why not put those resources into giving them spaces where they can coexist with us? They came here before us. Do the rules of giving back to the Aboriginals only apply if they're human is it?
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25/12/2017 05:19:14 am
Barcelona still holds bullfights. Why should murdering birds surprise anyone? Disgusting.
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Snigdha Mukherjee
25/12/2017 03:44:39 pm
Human beings r exceptional health risking demons not innocent birds...what else can be expected from such cruel monsters...destroying earth and it's living species..the most disgusting creatures are human being shame shame shame so many bird families ruined...hundreds of parent pegions who went searching for food will now never come back home..baby persons will starve and die ...I think the same treatment should be given back to these sick psychopaths.
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Jennifer parker
25/12/2017 07:41:19 pm
Sickening!!! I am writing to the ASPB!
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25/12/2017 09:01:35 pm
Leave it to Spain to take out it's frustrations on more animal species. Pretentious vane black-hearted humans.
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Frank Kowalzik
25/12/2017 09:47:44 pm
Die Kirche ist nun einmal das verlogenste das es gibt. Ich habe einmal beim Füttern meiner Engel nicht richtig aufgepasst und plötzlich stand eine Mitarbeiterin der Kirche hinter mir und drohte mir mit Anzeige. Als ich sagte jedes Lebewesen hat ein Recht auf Leben kam die Antwort "aber diese Drecksviecher nicht" - noch Fragen ??? Wie kann man bei einem solchen Anblick in Frieden Weihnachten feiern ???
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Van kaden
25/12/2017 11:14:22 pm
Rock doves are the sweetest animals you'll ever meet. They never complain & are obedient, loyal friends. If you rescue a 3 week old squeaker. it will love you more than or as much as your own child. The bias towards pigeons is a socially taught hatred which ranks high among all the bigotries & is the downfall of mankind. the negative karma of this atrocious act will be reaped by those who have sown it.
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Dany
27/12/2017 09:48:23 pm
Open your eyes… Watch Earthlings
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Karen L Lawson
30/12/2017 04:02:36 pm
Pigeons murdered to make way for a "Christmas fair." Hmmm. Let's remind these selfish bastards that it was Jesus who freed pigeons that were sold as sacrificial animals at the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. The Lord will likely take a dim view of this senseless slaughter. 😠
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