Being Green - 05 April 2019

FMR this week reported how a record number of dead dolphins, many of them severely mutilated, have washed up on France’s Atlantic coastline over the past few months. More than 1 thousand have been found with injuries which experts say are typically the result of being caught in industrial fishing nets. Ecology campaign group, Sea Shepherd, says this number could be as much as 10 times higher as the carcasses tend to sink to the bottom of the ocean. There are fears that the increasing rate of deaths could drive the European dolphin population to extinction. In this edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Prathna Singh of Sea Shepherd South Africa about the situation along our coastline.