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IMAGE OF A DOLPHIN THAT DIED STRANDED AMONG STONES ON THE ASTURIAN COAST
At least a dozen dolphins have been stranded so far this month on the Asturian coast. “Some came alive and died in the sand unattended, and all were thrown away for several days, even weeks, without being withdrawn,” they explain from the Coordinator for the Study and Protection of Marine Species (Cepesma), whose members will give a Step more to recover the network of strandings that was inoperative just a year ago requesting a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Environment. “Cepesma’s stranding network appears as such in the ministry’s marine conservation strategy and has been canceled by the counselor with the result we are already seeing,” says Carlos Solares, Cepesma volunteer who in June of last year delivered 83,000 signatures In the Ministry of the Environment to claim that the collaboration of the Principality with this network that had been active for 20 years would be resumed. Of the dozen dolphins killed so far this year, three appeared in Llanes, two in Tapia de Casariego, two in Castrillón, a couple in Luarca and three last ones in Verdicio, Villaviciosa and Colunga. One of the last ones appeared last Thursday on the beach of Cuevas del Mar with a paper that, according to the Cepesma, said, “do not touch, we will pick it up.” Solares, through the collective Fauna Urbana de Gijón (collaborator of the Cepesma), opened yesterday a new collection campaign of signatures on change.org to request the Ministry to end the death of marine animals on the coast of Asturias. “The decision to inspire the network of strandings without having viable alternatives for the care of marine fauna, without adequate means or trained personnel, is resulting in a real disaster of corpses lying on the beaches,” they explain from the Cepesma. They also remember that last June all the political groups of the General Board approved by absolute majority a proposal not of law in which it was urged to resume immediately the collaboration with the network of collection of beached animals of the Cepesma and that, in the absence Of news by the socialist government, began a collection of signatures that, at present, sum almost 90,000 supports. In October, the UI parliamentary group raised a question about the fulfillment of this non-law proposition without an answer so far.
Nine dolphins killed in 2016 Throughout 2016, the first year of 20 without the network of strandings, the balance that appears in the Cepesma was that of seven dolphins killed “without attention”, two other dead “with inadequate attention”, a seal released with “inadequate attention “And another more liberated” without taking into account that his condition was not yet adequate. ” Of all this, and of the corpses that have been appearing this first month of 2017, the ministry will be informed with the preparation of an informative dossier. The collaboration between Cepesma and Principado began to worsen in November 2015, when the volunteers from the network of beached animals were warned from 112 to participate in the rescue of a seal breeding in the cliffs of Llanes. “Twelve people were displaced by a red light storm alert with strong winds, rain and eight-meter waves, and after two hours of searching, the Cepesma coordinator was notified that a guard had located the animal and the counseling had Given order to put it in the trunk of his car and deliver it to the aquarium of Gijón, all without warning the team of Cepesma ‘that continued with the search. After asking for explanations, in the counseling “they escudaron in their competences in wild fauna to tell us that they can do what they want and how they want”. In January of last year a meeting was held between the two parties in which, from the Ministry of Commitment, they committed to elaborate a renewal of the agreement, which had been broken following the previous incident, within a period of 15 days, which also did not arrive . “Asturias does not have any center for the recovery of marine fauna, trained personnel or means for rescue operations, which is giving rise to the greatest disaster of marine animal deaths in the recent history of Asturias, which could and Should have been avoided. We went back to the 80s, when in Asturias there was absolutely no one who bothered to have adequate capacity to prevent his death, “they lament.
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