More and more dead dolphins are washing up after the accident involving two Russian oil tankers in the Kerch Strait between the Black Sea and the Azov Sea. Russian environmental organization Delfa said there are now 32 animals whose deaths are likely linked to the spill of heavy oil into the sea.
“We receive new information about dead dolphins almost every day, keep statistics and regularly pass on the data to government authorities,” the organization said via Telegram. The ecologists stressed that the number of dolphin deaths was “unusually high” for this time of year.
What had happened?
Two tankers loaded with heavy oil capsized in heavy seas in mid-December in the strait between the Russian mainland and the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula. It spilled tons of oil into the sea and has since washed up on the beaches of Russia’s Krasnodar region and Crimea. A state of emergency was declared on site.
Thousands of volunteers are working to clean the beaches. New oil stains keep appearing. The helpers also try to save birds contaminated with heavy oil. A scandal arose: ecologists complained that even 90 percent of the birds that were actually rescued later died due to improper treatment.
Authorities dismissed the accusation as “fake.” The proportion of animals that died on the way to release was less than ten percent, according to the operations team tasked with eliminating the disaster.
Source: Krone
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