Original title: the tail fin of the dead finless porpoise is bound with bricks. Who will guard the 'smiling spirit'?
A dead porpoise floats out of Dongting Lake in Yueyang, Hunan Province, with a cut of about 20cm on its belly and two bricks on its tail. According to the staff, the porpoise was either killed or thrown dead.
In the spring of 2012, there was a shocking death of finless porpoise in Dongting Lake, with a total of 12 finless porpoises dead.
The puffer fish is known as the 'born smiling spirit'. However, data shows that as of July 2018, there are only about 1012 finless porpoises left, less than 60% of the giant panda population. Now, another 'spirit' disappears.
"70% of the world is covered with water. Our planet is a blue one. "Behind this familiar saying, there are more than 200000 kinds of aquatic animals in the world, but they continue to face survival crisis. Who is responsible for the crisis?
Suspect one: Human
Technique: hunting, killing or captive breeding
In 2009, the documentary "Dolphin Bay" revealed the human who set hands on dolphins to make money. It is reported that each dolphin arrested can be sold for up to $150000.
However, the blood of the Dolphin Bay 'calls sleepless people'. In 2019, the Japanese government officially withdrew from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resumed its 31 year moratorium on commercial whaling.
In September 2019, fishermen's fishing boats set sail again in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan. The hunt will continue until April 2020.
Data show that fishermen in Taiji town will kill 2000 to 3000 dolphins in this time of year. However, scientists have said that dolphin meat is not good from the taste to the nutritional value, and even its mercury content is very high, which is not good for the body.
The hunter's hand, not only to the dolphins.
In 2014, three men and women stole 10375 eggs of Kenny turtles from the sea turtle reserve in Mexico, which has long been listed as an endangered animal.
In 2018, there was a "whale prison" in the Far East of Russia, where 90 belugas and 11 Orcas were imprisoned, 13 of them under one year old. Because of the captivity of human beings, Orcas that could have lived to the age of 100 in nature, most of them could not live to the age of 30 in captivity.
At present, Russian prosecutors have filed a criminal case against relevant personnel according to "illegal fishing of aquatic biological resources", and whales in the "whale prison" will be released in three batches.
In October 2019, the staff of the conservation agency "Dolphin Program" also found two dolphins who had been kept in captivity in Bali for 15 years and were cruelly abused. Because of the large amount of dolphin excretion, the swimming pool in which they are kept is like a 'toilet'. In order to decontaminate, the hotel adds a lot of chlorine into the water.
Among them, the dolphin named 'Deva' has obvious mental disorder, and the other dolphin 'Johnny' has lost his sight.
fortunately, with the help of the dolphin project staff, they will be free to return to the sea.
On July 11, 2019, Russian workers loaded a killer whale into a special water tank in a "whale prison" and prepared to transport the three killer whales to the release site on the Okhotsk coast.
Suspect two: plastic
Crime technique: good at 'camouflage', easy to be eaten by animals
The body of a pregnant sperm whale washed ashore on Sardinia, Italy. In its stomach, it found plastic waste weighing up to 22 kg.
Thailand's' wanghong 'dugong cub' Marian 'died of illness. Officials say it has a small amount of plastic waste in its stomach.
In the stomach of stranded whale carcasses in Norway, there are nearly 30 plastic bags and other plastic waste that have not been digested.
Plastic fibers have also been found in the stomach of Thames crabs in Britain. They may have eaten by mistake the balloons and sanitary napkins that were thrown into the river;
Plastic seems to be the number one killer in the water. According to statistics, 90% of the marine wastes found along the global coastline are related to plastic products. Bottles, straws, food packaging, have become floating in the ocean 'Stains'.
Because most animals can't distinguish plastic waste from food, 34% of the leatherback turtles who die each year mistakenly swallow plastic bags as jellyfish. Some fish, however, are easily attracted by the smell of dimethyl sulfide emitted by long-term soaked plastic and mistakenly regard it as prey.
The Allen & Middleton MacArthur Foundation in the UK once predicted that by 2050, the weight of plastic waste in the ocean will catch up with the weight of marine organisms in Shanghai. What's more, plastics don't degrade completely in seawater.
Suspect three: noise
Manipulation: interference with echolocation system, causing whale 'suicide wave'
On December 8, 2014, six or seven sperm whales lay motionless on the beach in the palara sea, York Peninsula, South Australia.
The locals said, 'I think it's too late to save them. At 8 a.m., one of them was still tail swinging, but now it's not moving & hellip; & hellip; '
According to the report, the whales were disturbed by sonar, disoriented and finally washed ashore.
Photo: a 50 foot long body of a giant sperm whale washed ashore in Pacifica, California, USA.
However, this is not an example. Noise has become a major suspect in killing them.
In 2009, nine 12 meter sperm whales ran aground on a beach in pulia, Italy. Five of them died, possibly due to noise from military exercises or seabed mineral exploration.
In July 2002, 66 leading whales ran aground in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, because of sonar experiments.
In May 1996, 14 swordfish whales were stranded off the coast of Greece, believed to have been involved in a US NATO exercise & hellip; & hellip;
Coleride, deputy director of the Marine Mammal Research Center in La Rochelle, France, once pointed out that the sound waves from warship sonar and echo control instrument and the noise from underwater explosion will cause the whale's echo positioning system to be disordered, which is the main reason for the collective washing of whales on the beach.
Animals can't speak. Who will speak for them?
Who, after all, is pursuing these natural 'elves' and creating one tragedy after another?
In order to protect human partners, many countries and regions have been acting.
China, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and other countries and regions have issued plastic restriction orders;
Canada has set up a coast guard team to protect the marine environment;
The United Nations has passed relevant resolutions, proposing to solve the underwater noise caused by human activities through research and cooperation & hellip;
The documentary director Robert Middleton Stewart, who witnessed the bloody illegal whaling, no longer focused on the dream underwater world. Many of the information about the impact of the illegal shark fin trade he photographed, after being made public, directly promoted the process of Costa Rica's government to introduce relevant laws.
Christian waters, an advertising designer, started to study the impact of marine garbage on animals when he saw a large amount of garbage left on the beautiful beach. Finally, he created a public service advertisement and was promoted by WWF.
Animals can't speak, waters said, so people have to speak for them.
--Guard the blue planet, return the nature 'spirit' peace and harmony, do you want to join