Dead dolphins wash up in Mauritius near the site of an oil spill

Brut America

Dozens of dolphins have been found dead on the coast of Mauritius. And according to local authorities, there is no link with the recent oil spill that hit the country…

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00:00The second one at Pointe-aux-Feuilles, near Grand-Sable.

00:23This morning, we brought some dead specimens.

00:29We found them partially devoured by the sharks,

00:33but it looked like they were already dead the day before.

00:47The boat sank in front of us here in the front.

00:50The next morning, this is what we found.

00:5314 other animals.

00:55This is the last one.

00:57We're going to cut it short.

01:55Four innocent animals, who survived the past, and we, those who want to, while we are

02:03in the village, we want to get a result, an analysis, tell us the truth that is there.

02:25The only thing we can say is that for the moment, the animals seemed clean, and they

02:36had nothing in the stomach, there was no trace of oil on their bodies, nor in the stomach,

02:43nor in the lungs.

02:44I know that there are a lot of Mauritians who ask themselves questions like me, because

02:48we are ecologists, we are lovers of the sea, and what is happening is really

02:53disappointing.

02:54But we, as people who do studies, and they must be credible studies, we cannot

03:02make hypotheses for the moment, we are waiting for the results.

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