Flights coming in and out of Lebanon’s Beirut airport could be at risk from birds flying over a nearby rubbish dump, the country’s transport minister has said. Youssef Fenianos told reporters on Wednesday that birds scavenging for food at the Costa Brava dump, one of three temporary landfill sites in the capital, posed a real “danger” to flights and the more than six million passengers that use the airport annually. Environmentalists have warned for months that the Costa Brava dump, one of three sites created under a government plan to end the city’s rubbish crisis, were attracting rodents and increasing numbers of birds.
