By Gustavo Ocando
Special to the Miami Herald
MARACAIBO, Venezuela
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article131778819.html#storylink=cpy
Special to the Miami Herald
MARACAIBO, Venezuela
Biology student Luis Sibira stumbled across the first set
of gory remains last November: eight pink flamingos, their breasts and
torsos sliced out, leaving their heads, spindly legs and vivid feathers
scattered across the marshy ground at Las Peonias Lagoon in western
Venezuela.
Flamingo hunting is both illegal and unusual at the lagoon, less than 200 miles from the Colombian border. Sibera, who had been studying the pink birds that nest there for years, had never seen anything remotely like that before.
Since then, though, he's seen at least 20 similar cases, most recently in January, when he found several carcasses hidden under shrubs, with a shotgun shell nearby.
But this isn’t simple poaching, he said. Sibira and other investigators from Zulia University, a public university in Maracaibo, are convinced that the protected birds have become the latest victims of Venezuela's growing hunger crisis. People have become so desperate, he said, that they are butchering and eating flamingos...http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article131778819.html
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article131778819.html#storylink=cpy
Flamingo hunting is both illegal and unusual at the lagoon, less than 200 miles from the Colombian border. Sibera, who had been studying the pink birds that nest there for years, had never seen anything remotely like that before.
Since then, though, he's seen at least 20 similar cases, most recently in January, when he found several carcasses hidden under shrubs, with a shotgun shell nearby.
But this isn’t simple poaching, he said. Sibira and other investigators from Zulia University, a public university in Maracaibo, are convinced that the protected birds have become the latest victims of Venezuela's growing hunger crisis. People have become so desperate, he said, that they are butchering and eating flamingos...http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article131778819.html
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article131778819.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article131778819.html#storylink=cpy
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