Jared Kushner's Ambition Threatens One of Europe's Last Pristine Ecosystems

[Brenda]

It is the jewel of the Adriatic. Its shimmering waters feed a rare colony of Dalmatian pelicans, the world’s largest freshwater birds, sustain the endangered Albanian water frog, and host loggerhead turtles on its encircling dunes. The Nartë lagoon is at the heart of the extensive and largely unspoiled delta of Albania’s Vjosë River, which researchers consider Europe’s most intact large river delta.

But that accolade won’t save it. The Vjosë delta and its lagoon are under siege. They are set to become the victims of a series of massive coastal tourist developments, partly bankrolled by a company set up by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. The hotels and luxury villas will accommodate up to a million visitors arriving annually at a new international airport currently being built on salt marshes around the lagoon.

Southern Albania is a rare European oasis for nature. The Vjosë River is often called Europe’s last undammed river outside Russia. It flows freely for 170 miles from the Pindus mountains in Greece, where it rises, and through canyons in remote Albanian highlands, before spreading unconstrained across a wide floodplain and emptying into the Adriatic through its 59,000-acre delta.

Even if the lagoon survives as a body of water, Vorpsi warns, its hydrology will be wrecked; the extensive dunes that have been built up at the delta’s outer edge will be at extreme risk; and the noise and lights from the airport will disorientate and scare away birds and turtles. It will be a wildlife wipeout.

A rendering of the planned hotel development on the Nartë lagoon. STUDIO GENESIS
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Kushner and all the other pig billionaires are not only extreme parasites but extreme destroyers of life on Earth. They won't stop until every inch of land, water and sky has a deed in one of their names. Are they even human?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/jared-kushner-albania-resort-developers-environmental-disaster-vital-ecosystem/

https://e360.yale.edu/features/jared-kushner-albania-vjose-vjosa-river-hotel

[wendyb-NC]

1. That is a crime

It is utterly disgusting. Can't the guy with too much money find an industrial wasteland somewhere to improve as a resort.

[Brenda]

2. It is beyond disgusting. It is beyond greed.

This goon (and I'm sure his ENTIRE family supports his business) appears to be going out of his way to destroy what little is left of the natural world.

[wendyb-NC]

3. Yup, it's beyond words

It makes me sick, that some people have so much money they can engage in thoughtless projects to further embellish themselves and their net worth.