{"id":87126,"date":"2017-02-20T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=87126"},"modified":"2017-02-19T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T16:05:37","slug":"operation-milagro-iii-update-day-of-the-dead-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/02\/operation-milagro-iii-update-day-of-the-dead-dolphins\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Milagro III Update: Day of the Dead Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>18 Feb 2017 – <\/em>February 11th, three days before the international World Love for Dolphin\u2019s Day<\/a>, Sea Shepherd discovered 14 dolphin corpses floating between the M\/V Sam Simon and\u00a0The M\/V Farley Mowat<\/a>\u00a0in Mexico\u2019s Sea of Cortez.\u00a0At least two of them showed signs of a violent death, with net marks on their bodies, stab wounds or fins crudely cut off in order for the fisherman to remove them quickly from their nets.<\/p>\n

In the last month alone, the Sam Simon has retrieved 22 illegal nets in the Sea of Cortez. These dangerous nets entangle various marine life, which likely included some, if not all, of the 14 dead dolphins that Sea Shepherd found. When a situation like this occurs, Sea Shepherd notifies Mexico\u2019s environmental protection agency, PROFEPA who uses this data to understand the devastating effect of illegal fishing on wildlife in this area.<\/p>\n

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Net markings around the head of dead dolphin. Photo: Carrie Cervantes<\/p><\/div>\n

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To assist Sea Shepherd in patrolling the Sea of Cortez to protect the marine wildlife in it including the near-extinct vaquita porpoise and the totoaba, please donate to Operation Milagro III:\u00a0http:\/\/www.seashepherd.org\/milagro3\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Campaign leader Raffa, observing dead dolphin to establish if human interaction was the cause of death. Photo: Carrie Cervantes<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dead dolphin on the deck of the Sam Simon. Photo: Carrie Cervantes<\/p><\/div>\n

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The dolphin gets craned on board the Sam Simon Photo: Carrie Cervantes<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dolphin tail cut off by fishermen. Photo: Carrie Cervantes<\/p><\/div>\n

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One of the dead dolphin found by the Sam Simon. Photo: Carrie Cervantes<\/p><\/div>\n

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The small boat crew brings one of the dead dolphin to the Sam Simon to later deliver it to PROFEPA for investigations. Photo: Carrie Cervantes<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Sam Simon’s small boat, the Viking, approaching one of the dead dolphins.
Photo: Guiga Pir\u00e1<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sea Shepherd is the world’s leading direct-action ocean conservation organisation.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 seashepherd.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

18 Feb 2017 – February 11th, three days before the international World Love for Dolphin\u2019s Day, Sea Shepherd discovered 14 dolphin corpses floating in Mexico\u2019s Sea of Cortez. At least two of them showed signs of a violent death, with net marks on their bodies, stab wounds or fins crudely cut off in order for the fisherman to remove them quickly from their nets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights-vegetarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}