Celebrating New Year's Eve with fireworks and rockets is harmful to Wildlife, Pets, environment and humans.
New Year's Eve is a nightmare for all pets, and pets sometimes perceive the deafening noise, bright flashes, and unknown smells as a life-threatening situation. Loud firecrackers, hissing rockets and bright flashes put many dogs, cats and small animals in fear and panic.
Wild animals are particularly sensitive to potential dangers, because in nature they have to survive every day through mindfulness, flight or defense. Especially in winter, our domestic wild animals have to manage well with their powers, since they have only limited energy and food reserves available. A high loss of energy due to disturbances or panic fleeing can have life-threatening consequences.
For the birds, the sky becomes an inferno, especially in the cities.
Other effects are the amount of garbage that covers the streets on New Year's Day and the high level of noise pollution, which means a great deal of stress, especially for animals.
On January 1, the fine dust concentration in the air is higher in many places than it is throughout the year. On average, around 4,000 tons of fine dust are released by fireworks, which corresponds to about 15% of the annual fine dust pollution from road traffic.
In addition, there is a high risk of injury to people from fireworks: burns, eye injuries and hearing damage are still relatively minor accidents.
The majority of Germans are against fireworks - according to a current survey: https://www.stern.de/gesellschaft/feuerwerk-in-innenstaedten--mehrheit-der-deutschen-fuer-verbot-8506926.html
I demand: Ban New Years´ Eve Fireworks for private Individuals in Germany !
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