Hello world,
South Africa is the main nesting site for a whole lot of European swallows for several months of the year. They come there to breed. The problem is, is that an enormous amount of humans will be flocking there for the 2010 Football World Cup. The airport that they will us is the King Shaka International airport, which is right in front of a huge nesting area. Thankfully, conservationists have been working with the developers and have come up with a solution. The nesting area is below the takeoff strip, so with a little help from a radar system, the control tower will be able to tell when the swallows are flying high enough to get caught in the planes jets. There will be plenty of time to perfect the system before the airport opens on May 1. I think it's wonderful that they worked this out instead of just killing the swallows off.
Here's the link;
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/03/african-airport-slots-bird-flights.html
Bye!
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