[News] More than 20 dolphins were found dead on a beach in Turkey: they investigate whether the cause is related to the war in Ukraine

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More than 20 dolphins were found dead on a Black Sea beach in Istanbul, leading experts to question whether their deaths were related to the war in Ukraine, Turkish media reported on Saturday.

A volunteer from an NGO that helps street animals found the bodies of 24 dolphins on a beach in Agacli, north of Istanbul, located on the shores of the Black Sea, and alerted the authorities, according to the private Turkish channel NTV. .

The gendarmerie collected the remains of the animals to determine the cause of their death.

“The shore on the other side (Ukraine) is a war zone. Did they die from the chemicals in the water? The cause needs to be determined,” Gurkan Gazoglu, the volunteer who found the dead dolphins, told NTV.

"An extraordinary increase in the number of dolphins found dead on the western shores of the Black Sea in Turkey has been observed for a month," the Turkish maritime research foundation said in a statement on Saturday.

Most of the dolphins died caught in fishing nets or trawls, but the reason for the unprecedented increase in these cases and their concentration in the Black Sea remains unexplained, according to the foundation.

The Faroe Islands consider limiting their traditional killing of dolphins

The Faroe Islands, a Danish autonomous territory, announced last February that discussions had begun on the future of its controversial dolphin hunt, with a decision expected in the coming weeks.

A petition with nearly 1.3 million signatures from around the world calling for a ban on traditional whaling was submitted to the Faroese government on Monday, the prime minister's office and whale conservation groups told AFP news agency. .

At a meeting in Torshavn on Tuesday, the government discussed the findings of a reassessment that Prime Minister Bardur Steig Nielsen had ordered in September, after the unusually large kill of more than 1,400 Atlantic white-sided dolphins sparked protests.

“It was a first meeting. No decisions were made," an official from the prime minister's office told AFP.

He added that a final decision was expected "within a few weeks," and there were "several options" on the table.

In the Faroese tradition known as “grindadrap”, or “grind” for short, the hunters surround the dolphins or pilot whales with a wide semi-circle of fishing boats and herd them into a shallow bay where they are stranded.

On the shore the fishermen kill them with knives.

Every summer, images of the bloody hunt make headlines around the world, sparking outrage among animal rights advocates who call the practice barbaric.

But hunting still enjoys widespread support in the Faroe Islands, where supporters point out that the animals have fed local people for centuries.

Normally, each year around 600 pilot whales are hunted in this way.

But the 12 September 2021 dolphin hunt in Skala Fjord was much larger, sparking an international outcry and forcing the government to reconsider the practice.

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