Ursula Siebert, Julian Stürznickel, Tobias Schaffeld, Ralf Oheim, Tim Rolvien, Ellen Prenger-Berninghoff, Peter Wohlsein, Jan Lakemeyer, Simon Rohner, Luca Aroha Schick, Stephanie Gross, Dominik Nachtsheim, Christa Ewers, Paul Becher, Michael Amling, Maria Morell
Harbour porpoises are under pressure from increasing human activities. This includes the detonation of ammunition that was dumped in large amounts into the sea during and after World War II. In this context, forty-two British ground mines from World War II were cleared by means of blasting in the period from 28 to 31 August 2019 by a NATO unit in the German Exclusive Economic Zone within the marine protected area of Fehmarn Belt in the Baltic Sea, Germany. Between September and November 2019, 24 harbour porpoises were found dead in the period after those clearing events along the coastline of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and were investigated for direct and indirect effects of blast injury...
January 15, 2022: Environment International