Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Timmy the stranded whale is dead. Please, let’s put animal welfare first and human emotion second

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Vanessa Pirotta, Postdoctoral Researcher and Wildlife Scientist, Macquarie University

Since March, the world has watched live as a humpback whale lay stranded on a sandbank in German waters, far from the North Sea.

The stranded humpback whale was found in poor health, tangled in fishing gear with telltale cuts from a ship strike on its back. He was given the name Timmy.

Early attempts to rescue Timmy failed. As the weeks dragged on, public interest in his plight increased.…

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