The Rural Agents have accounted 226 storks white women who have died electrocuted in the electrical towers of Endesa in Catalonia during the immigration process this fall, which has been communicated to both the electric company and the court investigating the company.
According to legal sources, only in the bird migration stage after summer, 226 white storks have been found dead, one protected speciesafter being electrocuted in natural areas in central Catalonia, which includes the provinces of Girona, Lleida and Tarragona.
The trickle of birds that die when landing or colliding in flight over the electrical towers continues unabated three years after the Prosecutor’s Office of Environment of Barcelona will file a complaint against Endesa and several of its directors for an environmental crime for not adopting measures to prevent the electrocution of birds. In fact, the Environmental Prosecutor Antoni Pelegrín receives every week a new report of Rural Agents notifying the death by electrocution of birds, many of them protected species.
The prosecutor has already transferred to the Vic court (Barcelona) that is investigating the complaint the Rural Agents’ report on the specimens killed by electrocution in the last immigration step, a report that in turn is sent to the electricity company so that it can adopt the appropriate measures to avoid damage to birdlife.
In the open case, the court has pending summon the new directors to testify accused of the electric company, after the investigation was expanded to the Endesa officials who have assumed their responsibility in the years after the presentation of the complaint. Specifically, the new suspects, whom the judge has agreed to summon to testify at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, are responsible for the Endesa power lines in the province of Barcelona since 2021.
The public ministry asked to expand the accusations of Endesa’s directors by verifying that, despite the open investigation for crimes against the environment and the protection of fauna, the company’s energy conduction towers They continue “without any protection” to prevent death of the birds that perch on them.
An Endesa spokesperson has stressed that the company is collaborating with justice in this criminal investigation and has recalled that his desire is to sign a new agreement with the Generalitat to adopt measures to protect birds, which has already been transferred to the new Government.
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