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2 Feb 2024
Every year, pink flamingos come to Tunis’s wetland to spend the winter and reproduce in the multiple wetlands surrounding. Yet their wetlands are threatened by the expansion of the city. We meet two advocates for flamingo’s rights to their wetlands in the city.
Interviews conducted by Malek Lakhal
Editing by Bochra Triki
Mixing : Light FM (Lebanon)
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