Flemingos Risk: Removing birds from the reproductive space in the sewage South Africa
The Camfers D in South Africa, Kimberly, is one of some of the locations of Africa, where Flemingos-Felenne has been reproduced in large numbers. But sewage water pollution has pushed the birds away, and threatening has already intensified the decline of this species.
Until nearly five years ago, Flemingo-Piock) reproduced in four places in Africa: One saline in Botswana and the other in Namibia in Tanzania And the historic mining town of South Africa is an artificial dam on the outskirts of Kimberly Diamonds. Now there are only three left.
Over the years, the Comfers Dam has received the sewage discharge of the dam, and the water is poisonous. This is the only water body in South Africa, where the Flamingos-Pyoky has been collected enough to reproduce. Today, there are no flamingos, warn the environmentalists.
A faded species
According to International Union for Nature Conservation (IUCN)Classified as Flemingo-Pioc “Almost threaten”, But there is no danger of extinction. The estimate is between the population Two to three million people, 80% of Africa live and the rest are in a small area of South Asia.
However, the trend is a sharp decline and the loss of one of some reproductive sites can dramatically exacerbate the situation.
Easter van der Westerhuzen-Kotzer.
“They cannot reproduce the Comfers Dam until the water levels return to normal conditions,” he said.
Sewage drains, national problem
The condition of the Comfers Dam reflects the national problem: many sewage treatment centers in South Africa are poor or unable to work.
Pictures were captured in 2020 Wild Life and Environment Society of South Africa Flemingos showed a covered dam. This month, when visiting the Reuters site, it is not a copy.
The lake now has green clay, bubbling, smelling badly from human waste.
“Over time, they have disappeared, they are going to the lagoon in the area, but they have not reproduced,” said the fifth neighbor’s Brenda Booth. “It is very discouraging now.”
Brenda The Booth has recently achieved the municipality of the African National Congress, which is being carried out by the African National Congress to address the pollution issue and the court orders for the city with over 300,000 residents.
The municipal officer, Thapalo Matlala explained to the Reuters that the thieves who stole the treatment of the therapeutic space were destroyed and that it was not working.
“We are very concerned, we know that Flemingos attract tourists to Kimberley and it helps the local economy and employment. This problem is essential to us,” Matlala said, Take 106 million rands (about 9.9 million) to restore this season – the money for the municipality.
Some places where the demand for food and living
Flemingos-Payokie feeds mainly to Spirulina, which is a blue-green algae that filters through special nozzles structures from water. This diet limits them to alkaline lakes, especially in the Rift Valley, East Africa.
There are more demand in places Nest: Only three in Africa and three in India.
Tania Anderson, a conservation biologist, told Reuters that the status of the IUCN races is going to be “harm”, which means “there is a risk of extinction in nature.”
This change is mainly salty estue and poorly depth lakes, loss of basic enough habitats for reproduction.
“With the loss of this reproductive site, the number of flamingoes in the area is decreasing,” said Anderson.
Global pollution threatens ecosystems
The degeneration of the Comfers dam is part of a wide scene of the decline of water ecosystems around the world.
A study published in 2021 in the Biological Conservation Magazine warned that these ecosystems are threatening sewage due to many pollution.
