Photo: Charne Kemp / AP
2,000 baby flamingos rescued
Baby flamingos are fed, weighed and cared for under warming red light at a rescue centre in Cape Town, after they were abandoned by their parents, as dam waters dried up in South Africa. A special airlift of baby flamingos is underway in South Africa as drought has imperiled their breeding ground at a reservoir, that hosts one of southern Africa's largest flamingo colony populations, dries up. The relocation of 2,000 chicks from Kamfers Dam in the Northern Cape Province to several locations, including Cape Town, has attracted public attention in South Africa. However, some conservation experts have questioned the intervention, asking "...was the decision to step in and remove the abandoned chicks and eggs the right one? Who made this decision, under what authority and in terms of what expertise?"
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