{"id":365657,"date":"2026-07-13T16:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=365657"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:35:04","slug":"flamingo-revolution-brewing-against-ivanka-trumps-luxury-hotel-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/flamingo-revolution-brewing-against-ivanka-trumps-luxury-hotel-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamingo Revolution brewing against Ivanka Trump’s luxury hotel | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump\u2019s daughter wants to construct a luxury resort on the Albanian island (Picture: Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Albania is within the midst of a \u2018Flamingo Revolution\u2019, sparked by Ivanka Trump\u2019s plans to show a rural island right into a luxury hotel.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump\u2019s daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, are reportedly going ahead with plans to remodel a Cold War-era military base right into a luxury resort.<\/p>\n

Sazan is Albania\u2019s largest island and is a delegated military exclusion zone, situated in a strategically vital location between the Strait of Otranto and the mouth of the Bay of Vlor\u00eb.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also the placement of Europe\u2019s last wild river delta, which is home to the critically endangered Balkan lynx, Mediterranean monk seal, and 1000’s of pink flamingos.<\/p>\n

Kushner and Trump\u2019s proposed project, which is backed by Saudi Arabian investors, would cripple the already fragile ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Activists have clashed with police at the location, hanging up signs like \u2018Albania shouldn’t be on the market,\u2019 \u2018Hands off Albanian soil,\u2019 and \u2018Sazan shouldn’t be a personal island, it belongs to the Albanian people.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The proposed resort would stretch across the agricultural island (Picture: Studio Genesis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The island is home to many vulnerable species (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018From start to complete, there was a complete lack of transparency,\u2019 Aleksand\u00ebr Traj\u00e7e, executive director of the country\u2019s leading conservation group, the Protection and Preservation of the Natural Environment in Albania (PPNEA), told The Guardian.<\/p>\n

\u2018Now we have seen no public consultation or public documentation regarding permits, and so now what we’re saying is, in the event that they remove the bulldozers, remove the fence and restore the habitats to what they were, then we will start talking.\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a moment of reckoning for the Albanian government, led by Prime Minister Edi Rama.<\/p>\n

Rama told CNN: \u2018The challenge shouldn’t be to pour concrete over the heads of flamingos. The challenge is to prove that development and nature can’t only coexist, but that nature and development need one another.\u2019<\/p>\n

Hundreds are taking to the streets as a part of the Flamingo Revolution to protest not only the event, but other frustrations with the Albanian government\u2019s approach to land access.<\/p>\n

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The island\u2019s flamingos have change into an emblem of protest (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Albanians have been demonstrating for weeks (Picture: Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An investigation has been launched by Albania\u2019s anti-corruption office into how Kushner was capable of purchase the land while bypassing the conventional system of public tenders for contracts.<\/p>\n

In Albania, the law states that sea and sand are public property \u2013 but newly erected fences on the island have sparked further anger.<\/p>\n

A newly passed law in 2024 allows \u2018structures of excellence, five stars or more\u2019 to be in-built environmentally protected areas.<\/p>\n

Melitjan Nezaj, an environmental biologist on the Albanian organisation Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania (PPNEA), told CNN: \u2018The project is sort of destructive, because it\u2019s actually planned to be built inside a protected area, inside a protected landscape, which is definitely one of the crucial intact wetlands within the Mediterranean.\u2019<\/p>\n

For now, Trump appears to be going ahead with the project. Ivanka told a podcast recently: \u2018You may\u2019t just, like, impose yourself upon a rustic or culture \u2014 you’ve gotten to grasp it first to do it in a wonderful and delicate and meaningful way.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump\u2019s daughter wants to construct a luxury resort on the Albanian island (Picture: Shutterstock) Albania is within the midst of a \u2018Flamingo Revolution\u2019, sparked by Ivanka Trump\u2019s plans to show a rural island right into a luxury hotel. Donald Trump\u2019s daughter and her husband, Jared Kushner, are reportedly going ahead with plans to remodel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20691],"tags":[21888,53802,3305,9451,5982,395,10527,8711,813],"class_list":["post-365657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brewing","tag-flamingo","tag-hotel","tag-ivanka","tag-luxury","tag-news","tag-revolution","tag-trumps","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t