“Fuel oil spill in the Black Sea: the death of dolphins and birds is recorded in Novorossiysk On the coast of Novorossiysk, 8 dead dolphins were found after the spillage of fuel oil from tankers. A total of 11 dolphins and 143 birds died, ecologists predict 1.5 years to clean up the area.”, — write on: unn.ua
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According to SHOT, a total of 11 dolphins and 143 birds have died since the accident. So far, volunteers have managed to catch more than 700 birds, most of them have been washed and sent to rehabilitation centers.
According to ecologists, it will be possible to finally clear the territory of fuel oil no earlier than in 1.5 years. Meanwhile, heavy fractions of hydrocarbons, according to them, will settle to the bottom of the Black Sea and disrupt the ecosystem.
Dolphins can be poisoned by toxic fish and get into an oil slick. Fuel oil is extremely dangerous for dolphins. If it gets into their stomach, hypoxia occurs and the animal suffocates. The Black Sea is home to three species of dolphins: the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin, the bottlenose dolphin, and the bottlenose dolphin. All of them are listed in the Red Book.
Yesterday it was possible to find the aft part of “Volgoneft-212”. Today, divers work at depth. Volunteers on the beaches near Anapa complain about the lack of equipment. They say that fuel oil continues to be taken out of the sea, and no one knows how much more it will be. The most difficult situation is now on pebble beaches.
Two Volgoneft tankers had an accident in the Kerch Strait.
Due to the accident of the Russian tankers, the leakage of fuel oil will have catastrophic consequences for the marine ecosystem of the Black Sea.
On December 20, the director of the Greenpeace Ukraine office, Natalya Gozak, stated that the most catastrophic consequences of the oil spill from Russian tankers in the Black Sea are expected in the coming days, and the pollution may reach the shores of Ukraine.
On December 21, it was reported that oil products from the crashed Russian tankers were found on the shore and in the sea on the occupied Kerch Peninsula.