Last week, Europe was hit by a devastating heat wave. A more than critical situation that has caused the loss of the lives of hundreds of people.
It was a veritable apocalypse of heat that Europe suffered last week. An apocalypse which, in Spain and Portugal alone, caused the death of more than 2,000 peopleas reported Axios. Tens of thousands of people have also been forced from their homes.
On average, between 40 and 50 degrees were recorded in Europeannounced the BBC. Some regions, including those of the United Kingdom, have even been placed under a “red warning” for extreme heat. A first time in the history of many countries. “We are climate change refugees”even declared a Frenchman to the WorldQuoted by The Guardian.
“Climate change affects everyone”as a resident of Spain said to Reuters. Animals are also victims of this extreme heat. In Francethe Arcachon Bay Zoo in La Teste-de-Buch, in Gironde, was even forced to carry out rescue operations in the face of the gigantic fire in the region. 370 transportable animals headed in special convoys to the Bordeaux-Pessac zoo.
“Despite the tireless mobilization of caregivers and veterinarians”, fourteen of these animals lost their lives due to the heat but also to stress: a macaw macaw, a scarlet ibis, a green macaw, two tarictic hornbills, two mitred conures, a whistling duck, two capuchins, a dwarf otter, an orangutan, a penguin and a squirrel monkey. A sad reality that is likely to be more and more common, with global warming becoming ever more widespread.
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