"The biodiversity landscape is completely altered. A number of species seem to have disappeared, but we need more data. Data which the war makes it impossible to collect."
"Aside from the oil spills and munitions, acoustic disturbance from military sonar is also thought to be a critical threat to cetaceans, leading to dolphin strandings and death."
"There are fewer people available to count and fewer reports called in by a war-weary Ukrainian population, in addition to the no man's land of the Crimean peninsula, occupied by Russian forces."
"The dolphins are the sentinels of ecology of the Black Sea, and properly monitoring them is difficult when there is a war raging."
The ongoing war in Ukraine has drastically altered the biodiversity of the Black Sea, with significant declines in dolphin populations. Monitoring efforts are hampered by the conflict, making it difficult to collect data on marine life. Carcasses of poisoned dolphins have been found along the coastline, with 125 recorded in the first year of the invasion and 49 the following year. The presence of mines, oil spills, and military sonar further threaten marine life, complicating efforts to assess the ecological health of the region.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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