The Egyptian vulture we have been tracking has spent the last three weeks moving around between the Al Multaqa rubbish dump, the coast and villages nearby. This is where it has spent most of its time over the last 8 months.
 |
| Movements of vulture during 21-28 2015. |
Interestingly, we can see below that there is work going on at the dump itself. Presumably this is part of the $37 Million/14.25 Million OMR expansion Sita-Suez won earlier in the year. Click
here to read more about that upgrade/expansion. In fact, Oman is upgrading its waste disposal across the country. Such upgrades are crucial for human health, and need not negatively affect scavenging birds, like the globally endangered Egyptian vultures that use the rubbish dumps. Indeed, by their very nature, vultures provide an important "ecosystem service" by feeding on rubbish, and thereby removing it from the environment. They provide this service 365 days a year, for free.
 |
| View of the rubbish dump. Compare with the image posted on this blog on 4 September 2015. |
No comments:
Post a Comment