The Center for the Protection and Study of Birds reacted to the text "NGOs do not give peace to hunters and couples" in which the president of DUA, former councilor and hunter Mehmet Zenka, accuses NGO representatives of disturbing hunters at the Solane hunting ground.
"Instead of dealing with the cause of the collapse of the collective that built his Ulcinj, with the destruction of pumps, conveyors, transformers and other vital machines of the Ulcinj Saltworks, the celebrated fighter for the rights of disenfranchised poachers, on the saltpan basins, deals with the problem faced by his comrades by illegally killing birds for Salted. And that some 'minders', unnamed, mean people hinder them in that? Impossible. He must poach on Solana, at the cost of breaking the law. Sad", it is stated, among other things, in the reaction of CZIP.
CZIP says that they did not expect that Zenka would be worried because Solana stopped working after 80 years, nor that 400 families were left without bread.
"The more important concern is whether someone will interfere with him or his companions in poaching on Solana. He is not worried because the European Natural Heritage in the analysis of hunting in Montenegro gave Montenegro a non-transitory rating in ratings from 1 to 5. Neither did he raise his voice when our cars were demolished, nor when we were threatened with death, nor when they pointed guns at the ornithologists. On the disgrace: the outrageous theft of more than 350 eggs from the nest of flamingos will not have his voice heard. He doesn't say anything about the demolition of the observation posts on Solana. The fact that his poachers on Solana wear phantoms is not a problem either. It is important that for him foreign experts and so-called nature protectors are "a group of people with vile and evil intentions". How is it possible that his poachers enter Solana without authorization, through 16 illegal entrances and against the decision of Solana and now the bankruptcy administration, they hunt? There is a big difference between the "evil" nature conservationists and its poachers: the birds are left behind, and the bloody trail behind them. "The competent authorities should deal with the call for lynching, that 'their patience has limits' while hundreds of CZIP volunteers are interfering with their poaching," the response reads.
Montage of killed birds, bullets, photomontage of poaching, taking out the killed birds with a tractor - all these lies were disproved in court a few years ago, so the director of the Ulcinj hunting ground was forced to issue a public apology.
"Fortunately, they are in the minority: the embassies of the most influential EU countries, the European Commission, the Bern, Bonn and Ramsar Conventions and AEWA (Euro-African Agreement on Migratory Waterfowl Species) agree with CZIP in one thing: Solana must be a protected area. And the 2005 Solana Board of Directors decision that hunting on Solana is prohibited must be respected. And it will be. Let him pick up his friends and couples in love that only he has seen and let them shoot clay pigeons. CZIP will continue to work on the protection of the Salt Lake and suspends any further public debate on this topic.
Salt flats are one of the most important bird habitats in the Mediterranean
CZIP informs that, if you were to look for the most exclusive and important habitat for birds in the Balkans, and even the entire Mediterranean, the Ulcinj Salt Flats would surely be on the short list. Solana is the most important habitat for birds on the eastern coast of the Adriatic, both for nesting and wintering sites, and as a stopover for millions of birds during autumn and spring migration.
"Out of about 530 species of European birds, 250 species or half of the European bird fauna have been registered on Solana so far! Does anyone have the right to destroy that wealth? Because of its importance, Solana has been an area of international importance for the habitat of birds (IBA) since 1989, as well as an Emerald habitat of the Bern Convention and a potential habitat of the Natura 2000 network. It represents the first private nature park in Montenegro, and it meets 6 out of 9 criteria according to the Ramsar Convention, which is more than enough reason for it to be included in the prestigious list of wetlands of international habitat, among 2500 such wetlands on the entire planet, in the coming period," reads the CZIP's response.
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