Klea Duro and Erald Xeka from the bird conservation team likewise feel abandoned by the police and especially by the Albanian government. “So far we have had no confrontations with the poachers, and we are hoping it stays like that,” says Klea.
All the same, it’s depressing when we go out in the field in the morning. We see men with guns and hear their shots, but at the moment there is no official authority in Albania to report such incidents to. Usually we contact the police, but they don’t always respond because they supposedly have more important things to do. They also don’t know how to deal with cases of wildlife crime. When, for example, we reported bird catchers with nets to the police, we had to accompany the officers to the scene of the crime and explain which birds are not allowed to be caught. These are tricky situations for us. We’d prefer some of these people not to see our faces,” says Erald.
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