2 minutes agoThe Independent: Albanian restaurant cooks bear meat, Albania “out of control” endangers Europe with new pandemic from animals
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)A restaurant in Albania is offering bear food from illegal hunting as part of an illegal trade on wild animals that is “out of control in this country”, inventorys have said. International media are already reporting on this. Researchers said this was their first [...]
International media are already reporting on this. Researchers said that this was the first time they had seen bear meat prepared somewhere in Europe, while experts have warned that this could lead to pandemic explosions of zoonotic diseases, such as Coronavirus.
Bears, monkeys, and birds are among the living animals sold in Albania's online markets, have found the investigation, increasing fears of the survival of certain species in this country, writes Independent, translate Periscope.
A animal protection association called “Four Prate” uncovered two major online sites in Albania that hold dozens of online ads of brown bears and other species protected by law.
Many pictures of animals also included foxes, wolves, and many others with their mouths tied together.
And this is a profitable business. For example, a wolf was found to cost 500 euros.
Wild animal buyers were hotels that they then defended to their molders. /Periscope
