In one national park, staff are collecting corpses of dolphins. They're among the many environmental casualties of Russian missiles.
There have been fewer dead mammals washing up over the winter months, staff say, as cetaceans migrate to deeper and warmer waters. They are nervously watching for the numbers to start rising again.
Sonar emanating from vessels in the Black Sea is a major issue in terms of the mammals’ hunting capabilities. Because dolphins ‘see’ with echolocation, the heavy presence of sonar can throw them off course. “They get acoustically traumatized and become deaf. They cannot see and cannot hear and cannot use echolocation to navigate,” says Rusev.
In Ukrainian-controlled territories, the only protected areas are the Tuzlovski Lagoons and the Danube Biosphere Reserve. “We do not have access to the rest due to the actions of the Russians, and we are afraid to even imagine the consequences of the occupation,” says Strilets.Russia’s attacks on areas around the park and unusually high levels of naval activity in the Black Sea more generally mean that the local ecology has been suffering tremendously.
in the Kakhovka Reservoir, on southern Ukraine’s Dnieper river, since February this year, harming the local ecology and endangering the nearby Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.“We may have a second Japanese ‘Fukushima’ on our territory,” Strilets says. “Spring and warmer temperatures will lead to a deterioration in water quality,[and] the accumulation and spread of toxins,” Strilets adds. “Fish are already dying en masse.
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