The scientists are reporting multitudes of dolphin deaths in the Black Sea as a result of the ukrainian war. Research indicates that dolphins often have internal injuries and burnswhich could be attributed to bomb explosions or landmines. In addition, they show signs of not having eaten for several days.
Dolphins are showing up off the Black Sea coast, which borders Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey, Moldova, Romania and Georgia. The first reports of mass deaths of dolphins refer to the month of Marchby the Turkish Marine Research Foundation.
The dolphins died from drowning
The foundation assured through a statement that the process began at the end of February and that it was already estimated total of 80 animals found dead on the shores of the Black Sea. In this same text it is pointed out that the animals died by drowningafter getting stuck in fishing nets.
The research director of the Tuzla Estuaries National Nature Park in Ukraine has documented more than 100 days of the war that began last February on his Facebook page. For this, he has used photographs with his findings and has kept a log of dolphin deaths since the beginning of this conflict.
“Barbarians kill not only civilized people but also intelligent dolphins“, Rusev exhibited on his Facebook profile. He also asserts that the data collected by him and his team and other researchers from all over Europe show that “several thousand dolphins have already died“.
253,000 healthy dolphins
Before the war, 100 scientists from a group of a Black Sea Conservation groupthe Mediterranean Sea and the adjoining Atlantic Sea studied marine life to determine the number of dolphins in these areas.
Their study found that more than 253,000 healthy dolphins They lived in the Black Sea as reported by the New York Timesthis being an obvious sign of a system that works well.
Importance of the Black Sea
It is an area of great geostrategic importance., as it is connected to the Marmara Sea, through the Bosphorus Strait, and to the Aegean Sea (a division of the Mediterranean Sea), through the Dadanelos Strait. In addition, some of the most important rivers flow into it, such as the Danube, the Dniester, the Dnieper and the Don.