Planes sent to attack African locusts

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Spain has sent seven aircraft to help a multinational effort to contain swarms of locusts that are threatening to devastate crops in Africa and spread north through Morocco and, potentially, to Europe.

"It is a lot easier to control the plague in the desert than in Spain," Juan Peña, the head of the Spanish project, told El País newspaper on Monday.

An intense campaign of spraying to the south of the Atlas mountains is attacking the swarms that are starting to appear after two exceptionally wet years provided perfect breeding conditions.

The potential is for a plague of proportions not seen for nearly 20 years.

"Locusts are breeding in thousands of spots over large areas south of the Atlas mountains stretching from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia to western Libya," the senior officer of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's locust group, Clive Elliot, warned.

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I don't see where an Environmentalist and/or a Religious person make the distinction between which of God's creations are acceptable to being slaughtered in masses? For example, if a herd of a million moose were sprayed and killed would Environmentalists and Religious people react differently than these millions of locusts?