Primorye: the consultation of scientists will solve the fate of animals from the "whale prison"

In Moscow, on April 25, a consultation of scientists will be held, who will have to decide the fate of the wands and belugs contained in the “whale prison” in the Primorsky Territory, the Greenpeace press service said in Russia. Experts will study the report of the team of the French oceanologist Jean-Michel Kousto. He investigated the state of animals and believes that all of them can be freed in the near future.

"A preliminary report with the recommendations on how it is necessary to build work on animal rehabilitation, the team provided the Ministry of Natural Resources, the administration of the Primorsky Territory and VNIRO. All animals can be released. Preliminary conclusions say that this summer. There are no signs that they could not be released in the coming months, we did not find a KUSURO team, an expert on the World War II of the Card of Nature Protection. Grigory Tsidulko.

Other independent experts do not see the reasons for the whaling in the enclosures. The senior researcher at the Ilyichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, a member of the Council on Marine Mammals, Sergei Ryazanov believes that all animals need to be released, if their condition allows. According to him, it is better to release wands in the summer where they were caught, because their fodder objects are concentrated there. And a meeting with relatives will accelerate adaptation.

The preparation of animals for release will not take much time. Killed and Belukhi spent in captivity not so long to get involved in hunting. Scientists know examples when the Afalins, who lived in dolphinaria for 20 years, in the wild began to get food very quickly.

In the "whale prison" there are mainly young individuals at the age of five to seven years. Their chances of survival are very high. On the contrary, it is dangerous if the killer whales and beluga are not released until August, when the water temperature rises and the related diseases can kill weak individuals.

Grigory Kidulko, a member of the KUSO team, an expert on the Marine Mammals of the World Nature Conservation Union, noted that he did not yet see activities in this direction from the abolders and authorities.

“There are no data that there are no animals for returning to the ocean yet, and the clawing companies continue to train them for sale to the oceanariums. So far, Russian state bodies do not take the final final step, the abilities are not required to execute any recommendations. These are their goods, their property, as they say, and they are not going to change anything,” the expert said.

• In Primorye, from April 6, international experts have been working with Russian scientists, who were attracted to help the wanders and belugas from the “whale prison” Oceanographer Jean-Michel Kuzo.
• On March 4, experts found that a killer whale disappeared from the “whale prison”, which looked the most patient during examination in January. The zoo defenders said the animal died. The abolders insist that the braid broke the network and fled. Scientists of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology have confirmed a serious deterioration in the state of killer whales and Belukh in just two months.
• On December 21, investigators reported that three belugas were gone from Kitov Prison, and referred to damaged networks. Ecologists told the editorial office "Siberia. Real" that the weakest and most exhausted cubs Beluh simply died due to the conditions of content.
• According to Russian Greenpeace, the Kitolovs wanted to sell the wanders and belugs to the Chinese oceanariums. In Russia, dolphins cannot be obtained for commercial purposes, but animals were caught by cultural and educational quota. The cost of one killer whale in dolphinaries and oceanariums in China is from 1 to 15 million dollars.
• Two of the four companies engaged in catching braids and Beluh, who were in the "whale prison" in Primorye, admitted that they made animals by order of foreign oceanariums.