Trying to get rid of noisy, food-stealing gulls is missing the point – it’s humans who are the pests | Sophie Pavelle

AT Cannes Festival this year, some unexpected appointments joined the security details at the Luxury Hotel the Majestic Hotel. They were wearing clothes not in Kevlar but in deep chestnut feathers, with the wings of up to four feet, claws for the toes and ebony beaks that were strengthened by meat. The new recruits are Harris Hex and their mission was clear: the guard stars of the air threat of gulls who dare photography or kidnapping.

This may seem to be an extreme solution to a benign problem – after all, didn’t most of us lose sandwiches to lead the beak and come out relatively safe? But since these bachelor’s food pirates come to the beach in increasingly numbers, cities around the world are increasingly wrestling with how they are managed. The employment of hawks from the local falcon, Christophe Bouzine, was the answer to Majestic to reduce the incidents related to the inserts (such as the 2011 Sufi Marco situation on wine). But in civilizations such as New York, Rome, Amsterdam and London, Nawras is also widely threatened, as it occupies permanent residence on urban distance.

Narges seem to be higher than ever, which makes it easy to forget to put them as sea birds in the crisis. Each of more than 50 global species of Gull A victim of fragmentation of habitat Brain damage And the failure of the members of plastic swallowing. In the United Kingdom, these troubles were made of troubles Many types of seagull in decline.

The roofs of the domestic animal homes have flooded them from the waves since the 1940s. Seeds. The light edges lamps were replaced, the buildings are carrots, and the landfill from a rocky beach. One study found that Partys can learn about the human routineWith their presence throughout schools three times during meals. Their adaptation – no matter how annoying to us – pays their survival. Perhaps a recognition of this can help us live next to him.

Due to the lack of a license either to pick up these birds or kill them, the introduction of hawks as agents to control natural Nawras is one of the ways to regulate human/seagull. Some councils have produced awareness campaigns, and encourage the local population to report nesting and not to feed them. Others are hypothetical to install physical barriers, such as the speaker and nails, to inhibit the comfort sites in the gulls. Such measures are expensive for local authorities and their effectiveness is not crucial. Some councils, such as Carlel, choose a more secret approach, threatening gulls more gently in the form of Falcons -like kites. In Exter, The Deliveroo, which was tried to “repellent” sound paths, broadcast the screaming of the registered Falcon and the distress calls recorded to deter them. The researchers at the University of Exeter investigated Take advantage of the eye contact With Nawras, in making them think twice in stealing food.

But such a set of anti -calm options perpetuate the narration of these animals as palms. The fact that gulls flourish in cities indicates our environmental failures as a society. Global household waste grows rapidly, most of which are thrown into the waste dump, where they are left for rot, and large quantities are released from Methane – greenhouse gas 80 times More harmful than carbon dioxide for 20 years after its launch. We do not give the gulls a lot of notice of evacuating the ocean as much as we beg them to come in, and nourish their instinct to diving, tear and destroy us – one day every time.

So what are the urban gulls, if not a threat? Perhaps, at the Cannes Festival, it is a timing message. The Film Festival will be held in May, during the month of May Season of Nawras (April to July). It is a period in which the gulls are high and chaotic, and its falling defense when hatching and escaping; and When the food is visibleWe offer them with easy choices. With brood for protection, reactions are increased.

It is easy to mix the seasonal survival of gulls with behavior throughout the year. On wild beaches, these increased activity will be revealed without anyone noticing. But we changed the environmental outlets to make the cities very attractive, distorting the instincts of species that try to adapt to imagination and flexibility.

As the long social species that master the exploits of adaptation, the gulls have a lot to teach us. While they adapt to urban habitats, we must also learn to live next to them. This gives us an opportunity to change the story, to form the future of common urban spaces. The areas where the festival organizers are compatible with the evaluation of nature, and the rhythms of life are respected. The spaces that are not only managed, but were re -conceived. The distances in which the human influence is studied with intent, not ignorance. The spaces that would allow our relationship with the wild to mature deeply, will become outdated conflict.