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Thousands of flamingos have settled in the Italian Po Delta on rice fields and cause massive damage. In doing so, the birds who search for food in the shallow, water-rich fields destroy the young rice plants. Farmers are desperate – their main source of income is threatened, defense attempts fail. The farmers try to drive the flamingos with nocturnal patrols, horns and headlights, but the birds return again and again. Giampaolo Cenacchi, vice pr…

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The Po Delta is a traditional and important rice-growing region in Italy. From there come particularly aromatic rice varieties. But now massive crop failures threaten, because thousands of flamingos occupy the rice fields. The farmers despair, but all attempts to defend themselves fail.