{"id":49632,"date":"2025-04-25T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49632\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:49:08","slug":"ukraines-black-sea-coast-is-suffering-from-war-damage-affecting-birds-and-marine-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49632\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea coast is suffering from war damage, affecting birds and marine life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He said 30,000 birds have died since December 2024 following an oil spill caused by two Russian tankers in the Black Sea\u2019s Kerch Strait.<\/p>\n<p>Rusev also blamed Russian drones for spooking flamingos, forcing them to abandon their nests and giving gulls the opportunity to decimate last year\u2019s colony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrones, they stay (for) one or two minutes but during this period, very aggressive gulls, like yellow-legged gulls, come to this colony and destroy all the nests,\u201d he said. \u201c400 nests were destroyed fully by these gulls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rusev added that while drones and missiles pose a threat from the air, mines and sonar are harming sea life.<\/p>\n<p>The scientist said it is stressful to work when there is ongoing bombing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw so many dolphins, dead dolphins on the shoreline,\u201d said Rusev, adding that dolphin carcasses have become an increasingly common sight along the Black Sea coast.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers estimate that at least 80,000 dolphins in the Black Sea have died as a direct result of the war.<\/p>\n<p>The death of such marine life is just one example of what park researchers call environmental war crimes committed by Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said 30,000 birds have died since December 2024 following an oil spill caused by two Russian tankers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[10242,2202,2000,299,26769,23238,7661,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-49632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-black-sea","9":"tag-environmental-impact","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-nature-wildlife","13":"tag-odesa","14":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","15":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114399161095143972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}