"Beluga deaths in St. Lawrence worry whale researchers"

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Beluga deaths in St. Lawrence worry whale researchers

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/08/20/quebec-belugas-dying-st-lawrence-north-shore-rimouski-michaud-gremm.html

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In 2012, researchers associated with a Tadoussac-based marine mammal research group, the Groupe de recherche et d'éducation sur les mammifères marins (GREMM), found 17 dead beluga calves either drifting in the water or washed up on shore. That's a record, according to GREMM's scientific director Robert Michaud.

In a typical year, based on data dating back to the early 1980s, fewer than three dead baby belugas washed up on shore each summer, Michaud said..

"Since 2005, we've seen an increase in the mortality of calves [and] a new kind of mortality in females — a lot of females are dying in neonatality conditions, either just before, during or after giving birth," Michaud said.

In 2008, GREMM recorded eight dead beluga calves. In 2010, scientists documented 11 deaths.


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[gopiscrap]

1. Another example of the rape of our planet

species dying, world getting warmer etc

[defacto7]

2. and that's a very big etc.

[arthritisR_US]

3. Cutting the funding to do the research really shows just how

much our government cares about this earth!