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Hundreds of birds died after many people set off fireworks in the Italian capital on New Year’s Eve, animal rights groups said on Friday, calling it a “massacre.”
Images from the streets near Rome’s main train station showed dozens and dozens of birds, mostly starlings, scattered lifelessly on the ground.
The cause of the deaths was unclear, but the International Organization for the Protection of Animals said it appeared to be linked to a particularly loud display of firecrackers and fireworks in the leafy neighborhood that many birds use for nesting.
They died of fear
“It could be that they died of fear. They can fly together and hit each other, or hit windows or power lines. Let’s not forget that they can also die of heart attacks,” said Loredana Diglio, a spokeswoman for the organization.
Fireworks banned in Italy for New Years Eve.
Rome and Naples answered like this pic.twitter.com/FhaGJ4mFqz– The Prodigious Chip (@prodigioso_el) January 1, 2021
By passing from one day to the next, from 2020 to 2021, some enjoy making noise and hearing “boom-boom”, at the cost of killing countless lives. The Dantesque image in Rome (Italy) with numerous birds killed by pyrotechnics. All kinds of species and humans, suffering from pyrotechnics pic.twitter.com/O1mJ0GPCOV
– Mister Seitán (@CuentaMister) January 1, 2021
The fireworks displays each year cause distress and injury to domestic and wild animals, Diglio added. And the unusual concentration of dead birds came despite the city of Rome’s ban on personal fireworks, which was widely ignored, and the 10 p.m. curfew as part of coronavirus restrictions.
OIPA’s Italian branch has called for the sale of firecrackers and fireworks for personal use to be banned, citing the threat to animals.
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