The bodies of dolphins and porpoises have washed up with alarming frequency along England s south coast in recent days.
Some bear signs of injuries from fishing nets, others are unmarked or too badly decomposed to prove the cause of death.
Last Sunday, a family enjoying the sea air on Cuckmere Haven Beach in Sussex stumbled upon the corpse of a young harbour porpoise with gashes on its body and injuries to its mouth.
Another two of these magnificent mammals were found lying on the shingle of Cooden Beach in Bexhill on Friday morning. One was partly decomposed, the other a much fresher fatality with its tail sliced off.
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by Crystal Mojica
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The shadowy deep sea mining industry is on course to cause irreversible impacts on deep sea ecosystems to benefit a wealthy few.
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9 December, 2020 – An exclusive Greenpeace International report reveals for the first time who is behind the controversial deep sea mining industry. The report shows who stands to benefit and who is left at risk if governments allow deep sea mining exploitation to begin. The analysis tracks the ownership and beneficiaries of private companies who are behind calls to open up the seabed to commercial mining. The investigation uncovers a web of subsidiaries, sub-contractors, and murky partnerships whose ultimate decision-makers and those in line to profit are based overwhelmingly in the Global North while the states sponsoring these companies, largely countries in the Global South, are exposed to liability and financial risk.