ISRAEL: MIGRATING STORKS FROM EUROPE DIE OF POLLUTION AFTER LANDING IN AN ACID FILLED POOL OF WATER ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF DIMONA.

Record ID: 217111

  • Title: ISRAEL: MIGRATING STORKS FROM EUROPE DIE OF POLLUTION AFTER LANDING IN AN ACID FILLED POOL OF WATER ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF DIMONA.
  • Date: 23rd August 2004
  • Summary: (U6) NEAR DIMONA, NEGEV, SOUTHERN ISRAEL (AUGUST 23, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE/AERIAL: OF DEAD STORKS LYING AROUND ACID-FILLED POOL. 0.05 2. CU: OF DEAD STORK. 0.11 3. VARIOUS: OF DEAD AND DYING STORKS. (5 SHOTS) 0.40 4. TRACK: STORK FLYING ABOVE POOL LANDING AMONG DEAD BIRDS. 0.50 (U6) TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (AUGUST 2
  • Embargoed: 7th September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: NEAR DIMONA, NEGEV, SOUTHERN ISRAEL/ TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA6HWJLUV3A4DMBMBY1OFPS38CY
  • Story Text: Ecological disaster strikes in Israel as 150
    migrating storks die of pollution


    A minor ecological disaster struck Israel on Monday
    (August 23) when a flock of some 150 storks migrating from
    Europe died after they landed in an acid-filled pool of
    water in the south of the country.

    The storks, en route south for the fall migrating
    season, landed in an acid-filled pool used for phosphate
    manufacturing outside a processing plant on the outskirts
    of Dimona. The injured birds were transferred for treatment
    at the Zoological Center in a safari just outside Tel-Aviv.

    "We are taking those storks to the hospital and now we
    are trying to save them because they are in severe
    condition," said Yigal Horowitz, a veterinarian at Israel's
    zoological centre in Ramat Gan.

    Horowitz managed to save four of the six injured storks
    after two of them died on the operating table.



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