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					<title>10,000 dead songbirds headed to Italian restaurants confiscated</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/10000-dead-songbirds-headed-to-italian-restaurants-confiscated/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Nov 2011 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Environment, Green, Law, Law Enforcement, Poaching, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bushmeat, referring to wild animals killed (often illegally) for consumption, is usually considered a conservation problem in developing nations in Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. However, a recent bust on the Hungarian-Romanian border proves that Europe is not immune: Hungarian officials seized around 10,000 dead songbirds. The birds were likely heading to restaurants in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bushmeat, referring to wild animals killed (often illegally) for consumption, is usually considered a conservation problem in developing nations in Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America. However, a recent bust on the Hungarian-Romanian border proves that Europe is not immune: Hungarian officials seized around 10,000 dead songbirds. The birds were likely heading to restaurants in northern Italy according to wildlife trade monitoring group, TRAFFIC. The illegal haul included Eurasian skylarks (Alauda arvensis), Calandra larks (Melanocorypha calandra), red-throated pipits (Anthus cervinus), bluethroats (Luscinia svecica), European goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis), fieldfares (Turdus pilaris), mistle thrushes (Turdus viscivorus), reed buntings (Emberiza schoeniclus) and white wagtails (Motacilla alba). While none of these species are considered Endangered by the IUCN Red List, some songbirds are in decline in Europe due to habitat loss and pollution in many parts of Europe. Small songbirds like the Meadow Pipit are especially targeted by the illegal trade in songbirds. Photo: © Richard Thomas/TRAFFIC. Two years ago TRAFFIC released a report detailing the trade from Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia to restaurants in Italy, where the tiny songbirds are considered a delicacy. &#8220;Despite TRAFFIC’s earlier warnings, the illegal trade in songbirds within Europe clearly still continues&#8212;a situation the EU should find unacceptable and do its utmost to rectify,&#8221; said Katalin Kecse-Nagy, a Senior Program Officer with TRAFFIC, in a press release. Songbird eating in Europe is not often discussed, but is hardly a secret. Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has written about eating the ortolan songbird in France, a meal garnered from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/11/10000-dead-songbirds-headed-to-italian-restaurants-confiscated/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Hungary suffers &#8216;ecological tragedy&#8217; as aluminum mining sludge reaches Danube</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/10/hungary-suffers-ecological-tragedy-as-aluminum-mining-sludge-reaches-danube/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Oct 2010 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Toxic red sludge, a waste product of aluminum production, has reached Europe&#8217;s Danube River after a spill at a Hungarian factory drowned four people and left over a hundred injured, many with chemical burns. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences says tests show that heavy metals in the Danube due to the spill are currently far [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Toxic red sludge, a waste product of aluminum production, has reached Europe&#8217;s Danube River after a spill at a Hungarian factory drowned four people and left over a hundred injured, many with chemical burns. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences says tests show that heavy metals in the Danube due to the spill are currently far from dangerous levels, however other rivers, villages, and farmlands have been devastated by the environmental disaster which released approximately a million cubic meters of sludge over 50 square kilometers. &#8220;Life in the Marcal River has been extinguished,&#8221; Hungarian rescue agency spokesman Tibor Dobson told the Associated Press (AP). The Marcal River flows into the Raba River, which eventually reaches the Danube, Europe&#8217;s second longest river and an important water source for many Europeans. Rescue workers are dumping acids and calcium sulphate into affected waters to neutralize the sludge&#8217;s alkalinity and bind the material. Three villages in western Hungary were also flooded with the red sludge, sometimes reaching up to 2 meters in height as it swept out from the reservoir. Parts of Kolonar, the worst hit village, will likely have to be abandoned according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban who toured the village today. He said that ruined houses should remain for &#8220;posterity&#8221;. Obran has labeled the disaster an &#8220;ecological tragedy&#8221;, while a spokesperson for Greenpeace International told the AP that the spill is in the top 3 environmental disasters in Europe over the past few decades. While the mining and processing of aluminum,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/10/hungary-suffers-ecological-tragedy-as-aluminum-mining-sludge-reaches-danube/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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