I saw Kushner’s Albania resort up close — it is an environmental disaster
Key takeaways
- Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands.
- Europe and Central Asia Director, Bird Life International.
- xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo People take part in a protest against a luxury resort, a plan by a company linked to U.S.
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The damage at Vjosa-Narta is not fake news. Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands.
Europe and Central Asia Director, Bird Life International.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo People take part in a protest against a luxury resort, a plan by a company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast, in Tirana, Albania, June 10, 2026. [Florion Goga/Reuters]The destruction of Albania’s Vjosa-Narta ecosystem is not the fake news that Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama claims. It is reality. I know, because I was there when it started.