Rehabilitation of Birds: cleaning White Storks from Oil
Despite on the fact that the White Storks' population increases in Armenia, they regularly face some threats and through that they show for us - where we have problems with the wetland ecosystems. This time, the White Storks indicated the water pollution by unknown source of oil.
In response to that we have:
- cleaned five Storks during two sessions on 21st and 28th of July, 2019;
- organized feeding of the White Storks with the help of local administration;
- found most probable source of pollution, which seems to be sturgeon farms, which dump the internal organs of gutted fish - which contain a high amount of fat - into rivers. These emissions form congestion in the canals, and in these jams storks look for food, smearing in fish oil, with all the consequences;
For the support, we would like to express our gratitude to the Ministry of the Environment of RA, Environmental State Inspection, Hovtashen Village Administration, Art-cafe Ilik, and all our volunteers.