At the end of May 2025, a photo diverged on the Web, which captures hundreds of bodies of dead deer and other animals. It is claimed that they were killed when stripping a territory intended to build a green energy park in Portugal. We checked whether this information is correct.
A terrible photo of dead animals with such a description of the causes of their death can be found in "VKontakte" X, Facebook, Telegram and other social networks. Users Platform blog, who also shared the picture, are outraged by the duplicity of the authorities, zoo guards and activists, who allegedly ignored the murder of animals for the protection of the climate. Some publications contain not only photos of the dead animals, but also the heading of the news in a certain media.
“Verified” could not be found in the authoritative Portuguese and international media fresh news notes on the shocking mass killing of animals at the site of the future park of solar energy. Nevertheless, the screenshot published by Internet users is genuine. If you look for news by heading, you can find article Portugal Resident publications. However, the date of publication did not fall on the viral screenshot - December 22, 2020.
The article refers to the incident that occurred a week before - on social networks there were pictures published by a group of Spanish hunters with comments about the “super -record hunting”. There were animals Killed Within the hunting grounds in the municipality of the Asambuzha near Lisbon. The media wrote that the Spanish company organized a hunt for 16 tourists from Spain, conducting such events on the Pyrenee Peninsula. Some publications (for example, the same Portugal Resident) indicate: presumably, animals were exterminated to clean the territory before the construction of the green energy park. However, most local publications claimed that it was just about hunting for the entertainment of tourists.
The date of publication is not the only thing that Internet users are silent about that distributing a note of five years ago under the guise of fresh news. At the end of 2020, the incident caused a large public outcry, about it They wrote And local media and Foreignincluding Russian. The authorities and the Portuguese community, as well as the zoo defenders around the world, were outraged by the mass extermination of animals for fun. Portuguese Party for the Protection of Animal Rights condemned Hunters called the Minister of the Environment to hold them accountable. The Institute for the Protection of Nature and Forests of Portugal (ICNF) immediately Started Investigation of what happened. Despite the fact that the hunt in this territory was legal, such a cruel mass extermination of animals located in the fenced territory and unable to escape, prompted ICNF to withdraw a license for hunting in this area. Owners of land, however, insisted: They did not allow tourists to shoot several hundred animals at once and as a result they suffered more than the rest of the parties. In addition, ICNF filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office. Minister of Environmental Protection and Climate Juan Pedru Matush Fernandesh He promised To call on the National Hunting Council to revise the policy in this area in Portugal.
A year later, the local publication is Publico released The material on how the investigation is being promoted. It turned out that the authorities could not establish the identities of the suspects. The same material also tells about the fate of the solar panels, which, indeed, planned to be installed in the Isambozh. According to Publico, the companies employed in this project denied any connection between the incident and their activities. According to journalists, the process of installing solar panels only slowed down - in the end, construction Launched Only at the end of 2022 and planned to be completed in two years. However, at the time of writing this analysis of the commissioning of the facility was not reported.
Thus, the incident, which is discussed in viral publications, actually occurred in Portugal, but at the end of 2020. Although the information is presented as if hundreds of animals were killed in the framework of the preparation of the territory for the construction of the solar energy park, “verified” did not find evidence in favor of this hypothesis. Some Portuguese journalists, in notes of five years ago, mentioned the future construction of the park, but clarified that the connection between these two events was only alleged and not confirmed by anything. According to reports, the animals were killed on the hunt organized by the Spanish company specializing in such events, and the participants paid money for this. The assertion and eco -activists ignored the incident - in 2020 it caused a great resonance.
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