Edi Rama: The Dalmatian Pelican decided to lay its eggs in Albania because hunting was banned. When we arrived, the wolves had also decreased

2026-06-09 21:02:56Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

In his speech to the audience in Fier, Edi Rama once again commented on the protest held in Tirana where thousands of citizens have been gathering outside his office for 10 days.

Stressing that the protest has taken on political elements, as members of new parties are also present, Rama stressed that it is brutal to hold the socialists accountable who have worked tirelessly over the years to make Albania a better place.

The Prime Minister also underlined that it is not the Socialist Party that is destroying birds, while he concluded that within 10 years the number of Dalmatian pelicans has been increasing, thanks to the intervention of the government, which has not allowed the hunting of birds.

"Why did the Dalmatian pelican decide to lay its eggs in Albania? Because hunting was banned for 10 years. And everyone knows this, all the institutions and organizations that deal with this. We have inventories of how forests that had become bird-free territories have been restored, where wolves have also decreased."

"There were territories where only sawmills could be heard from all four sides, trailers carrying wood were sold without any receipts, and an entire network of criminals was enriched. It took the SP to ban the exploitation of forests for 10 years," Rama emphasized. 

Rama's speech

What is happening today, not simply what is happening to a group or a series of people that Bulevardi has brought together, starting with a legitimate concern. More important is what is happening to Albania today and why the country is being used by people who can be sure that it is not that they have any pain or any pain about what will happen to the flamingos of Zvërnec, or that they are interested in Albania.

Today we are the center of a series of clashes, having said this I am not saying that the people who came out there are spy agents brought in by dark forces, but apart from a good part of them who are politicians of new parties who became obsolete much faster. It seems to them as if the world is with them, as if the entire media system in America but also Europe is at the peak of a sympathy that these people are fighting for their country and homeland, Whoever thinks so is lying to themselves in a naive way.

Albania has been here and the issues of the environment, nature and animals have been there, even very serious ones. Albania has been a country like no other in Europe, until we came to office, hunting tourism was practiced. There was a whole system to bring tourists with couples, international maniacs from surrounding countries and other countries, as tours and guides are done today, at that time it was tourism of illegal killing of birds and animals in Albania.

If this passion were so expressed, I suspect that they are there for the environment. We would have seen a group of people dressing up as flamingos saying that they have disappeared. There were no flamingos in Albania and this is factual, because the hunting of wild animals that came from other breeding places, had caused all our lagoons, Karavasta where the Dalmatian pelican was massacred, to return to lay eggs much later. Today we have a register of the entire population of birds and animals in Albania. It has multiplied since the time we kept the register.

Why did the Dalmatian pelican decide to lay its eggs in Albania? Because hunting was banned for 10 years. And everyone knows this, all the institutions and organizations that deal with this. We have inventories of how forests that had become bird-free territories have been restored, where wolves have also decreased.

There were territories where only sawmills could be heard from all four sides, trailers loaded with wood were sold without any receipts, an entire network of criminals was enriched, and the Socialist Party had to ban the exploitation of forests for 10 years.

Gathering today and demanding accountability for a project is legitimate. But accountability is demanded by sitting down and getting the transparency they demand. There is a vital minimum if that protest is a concern for Sazan, Zvërnec, biodiversity, flamingos. The vital minimum is to bring out a group of people and say sit down, that these are people, experts who know what they are talking about.

You can't come and do the technique I know, with negotiations to get me to leave. If you're protesting for the flamingos, there's no point in leaving the government, coming today and brutally demanding justice for a government that created Albania, put it on defense.


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