.. Sunday afternoon, nearly 200 whales are stranded on the beach of King Island in Tasmania . Among the cetaceans recognized as pilot whales (pilot whales), there were 7 also bottle-nosed dolphins . Five of them were immediately rescued by rangers and volunteers, 130 pilot whales but unfortunately there was nothing to be done: they have lost their lives in immense suffering a few hours. Rescuers managed to save only 54 animals in total.
Some activists of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, returning from the Ross Sea after a long campaign Musashi (game last December to oppose illegal Japanese whaling in the Antarctic sea), went there to give help and save the whales. A detailed guide in English here
Over the past three months, four similar cases in the same area saw more than 400 whales die beached , especially pilot whales and sperm whales. This is in fact the migration season for these animals, which go in large flocks near the coast of Tasmania and Australia.
It is believed that the stranding of cetaceans is to be charged, as usual, human activity in the open sea: sonar and ultrasound disturb the sensitive method of orientation of whales, confusing them and making them impossible to follow their usual route. For many years that such tragedies occur, but nothing was done to reduce or, better still, eliminate the problem.
If we join the victims of those strandings of illegal Japanese whaling, to add the thousands of animals died as a result to trawl and longlines with (many cetaceans remain imprisoned and die drowned) and the animals captured and brutally slaughtered for the Asian market, we recognize the emergency situation in which our ocean are. And that is getting worse day by day.
Cetacean disoriented, caught, trapped, killed. Ecosystems destroyed. Polluted waters.
All this is due exclusively to human activity. To which the human However, there seems to be paying any attention.
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