International anger over Balearic fumigating

Palma.—Ecologists, environmental organisations and investigators across the world have rejected aerial fumigation with pesticides in order to control pests such as the processionary caterpillar here in the Balearics.
The fumigation operation has just come to an end, it was brought to  an early end after widespread local outrage over the way in which the fumigating was being carried out, and the environmental group GOBintends to take the matter up with the European Commission.
Friends of the Earth, the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, Ecologists in Action, SEO/BirdLife and a host of other leading  global organisations have all warned that aerial fumigation is extremely dangerous and poses a major threat to the health of animals and humans.
Majorca-based personal trainer Luke Wills, who writes for the Bulletin, addressed this issue last month and, despite being told by the Balearic Ministry for the Environment that the pesticide being used posed no threat and was in keeping with the European Union  rules and regulations,  he discovered that it can actually cause a number of types of cancers.