“Plot skies, divisions of the celest land that are owned by the wind.” Eva Amaral’s voice on the screen does not betray what he’s talking about. However, yellow spots around their eyes, their movements and the nakedness of their shoulders are enough to insinuate that, with their words, it gives voice to those who do not have it: the protagonists of those “dramas that occur in silence.”
Today, March 3, World Nature Day, The Wild Fauna Recovery Center Grefa It has joined the company Invertec to present, at the Majadahonda Fauna Hospital, the short film Threatened. The work of the Granada director César Ríos resorts to fiction and a poetic language to remember, on this date, the threats suffered by wild species, mostly anthropic.
In addition to the singer, who gives life to an eagle that furrows a sky full of electrical cables, several actors such as Aitor Luna, Aura Garrido, Eva Ugarte, Mirela Balic and Nadia de Santiago They get into the skin of different animals (will, auths or azores) to get closer to the problems that suffer from a near and understandable vision. “The fact that the exceptional cast of actors and actresses who have collaborated embodied wild animals in threat situations allows those who see the short to empathize in a different and very special way with the problems of our native fauna,” explains the filmmaker César Ríos.
Furtivism, poisoning, road abuses or electrocutions in electric lines are some of the daily threats that endanger the survival of native species. And it is that the data overwhelm: some 10,000 animals are victims of the poison every year in our country, and Some 30,000 raptors die annually between collisions and electrocutions with electric lines. However, many of these problems can be corrected, recalled Fernando Garcés, general secretary of Grefa, who details that poisoning cases or problems caused by hunting fences have been decreasing thanks to greater awareness and more strict regulations.
Until this hospital, hundreds of animals arrive every year “who do not give clues about what has happened to them because they do not have an owner who tells us their symptomatology,” explains a veterinarian from the center during the documentary. And it is that the piece has two versions: one of fiction and an extended one, which enters the day -to -day work in this center. In the case of electric lines, “companies have involved in protecting the towers,” explains José Luis Ruz González, of Envertec, a company specialized in applying solutions to reduce their impact on the birds and sponsor of the short film. The speakers recalled that a new regulation is being prepared that will complement the existing 2008, with the aim of protecting the entire electricity of the country. Not only as an avifauna conservation measure, but also to avoid infrastructure damage or prevent fires, since “8% of them originate after the collision or electrocution of some bird”Says Ruz.
Threatened It is being presented in different competitions and festivals with the aim of achieving the greatest possible impact. After this stage, its diffusion is planned through the different informative channels and social networks of Grefa, with the intention of raising awareness of society about the threats derived from human activity that put the survival of many wild species at risk in their natural environment.