4) Dead Dolphins – Peru – March 2014

Around 65 dead dolphins washed up on the shores of the Lambayeque region in Peru this month. Local fishermen said that it’s not rare to find dead dolphins on the beach, but 60+ is definitely not the norm. The locals who survive off the water’s bounty are complaining because they believe it’s due to environmental destruction. Also the government won’t come down and clear the carcasses up which annoys them, they just leave them there to rot and stink.

In 2012 almost a thousand washed up on the shores of Lambayeque. Autopsies on the dolphins found in 2012 were inconclusive. Speculation ranged from biotoxins in the sea to seismic testing or an “unknown ailment”.

So the juries out on this one but my money’s on mucky humans friggin’ with the seas.

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