In Odesa, on the coast of the national natural park Tuzlivski Lymany, scientists found another dead dolphin.
Ivan Rusev, a biologist and ecologist of the national park, suggested on his Facebook page that the cause of his death was a contusion from the sonars of the enemy military fleet in the Black Sea in the occupied waters of Crimea.
He said that the current probably carried the body to the shores of Odesa. The sea also washes dead dolphins to the shores of Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria, Chornomorsk and Odesa. According to scientists, their number reached 10.
Rusev emphasized that during March-April 2023, dead dolphins were found on the shores of occupied Crimea and near Russian cities, including Novorossiysk, Sochi, Gelendzhik and Anapa. Among them were contused animals, which confirms the activity of sonar devices of enemy submarines and surface boats in that part of the Black Sea.
He noted that in the spring of 2022, thousands of dolphins died in the waters of Ukraine.
Rusev added that in May 2023, when there was no attack by the enemy fleet, scientists often encountered schools of dolphins of 12 animals fishing on the shoals.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in April 2023, more than 77 dead dolphins were registered in the waters of the Black Sea, in particular in the bays of Sevastopol and on other coasts of the occupied Crimea.
Earlier, EcoPolitic spoke with ecologist, doctor of biological sciences Ivan Rusev. He said that during the year of the war, about three thousand dolphins died in Ukraine, and, in general, 50 thousand died in the Black Sea.
