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Peru, May 23rd 2009

Chiclayo Airport - Birds keep on being a threat to Aircrafts.

Since January 2010, eight collisions between birds and aircrafts have been reported. Aeropuertos del Peru believe that the inventory of animals will end in June.

This problem does not end here. Collisions between birds and aircrafts pose a hazard for Chiclayo Airport. So far this year, there have been eight collisions. (Carol Mestanza).

Carol Mestanza Cáceres
Chiclayo (El Comercio Norte).- The problem that vultures represent in the Airport of Chiclayo continues. Since January 2010, eight collisions between birds and commercial aircrafts have been reported in José Abelardo Quiñones Gonzales air terminal, without causing major consequences.

This number was provided by Aeropuertos del Peru (ADP) spokesperson, company that administers the air terminal, who confirmed that they are carrying out a survey of those birds that remain next to the terminal. This report will end the first week of June and will allow executing a possible sanitary hunting, with the previous evaluation of the Administration of Forest and Wildlife (ATFFS) of Lambayeque.

For a major control, ADP, ATFFS and the Ministry of Civil Defense agreed to clean up the north zone of the airport, give sensitization talks to neighbors and request the police for their support in avoiding people from littering.
Guillermo Baigorrea, Wildlife Chief of Lambayeque ATFFS, indicated that vultures’ proliferation is due to the bad state of the sewerage and to the garbage. “ If this is not controlled, the sanitary hunting will be in vain, because other vultures will come to occupy the empty places ”.

That's why the Environmental district attorney, Tania Bravo, will demand Chiclayo mayor, Roberto Torres, to solve garbage and drainage issues. “ We will do a pursuit to the agreements that are signed by the municipality and, if these are not fulfilled, a penal process will be opened to the responsible ”.
Carlos Balarezo, Regional Director Lambayeque Civil Defense, remembered that in Peru, the Airport of Chiclayo occupies the second place in cases of collisions between birds and aircrafts, following the Airport of Iquitos. “ In Iquitos they are already taking actions to mitigate collisions with birds, in contrast to Chiclayo, where the accidents increase ”.

SOURCE OF INFECTION
At first sight, it is observed that the vultures not only circulate along the Airport terminal area but all over Chiclayo, especially in the center. According to a report done in 2007, the Reque garbage dump is the principal point of attraction for vultures.

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