No, he will not release orcas and belugas held in Russian prisons. The owner of the cetaceans held captive in Srednyaya Bay, in the Russian Far East (nicknamed "the whale camp") has no intention of doing so.
No, he will not release orcas and belugas held in Russian prisons. The owner of the cetaceans held captive in Srednyaya Bay, in the Russian Far East (nicknamed "the whale camp") has no intention of doing so.
Di Caprio had intervened for them, with an international mobilization that had moved the Kremlin. The Russian government, in fact, had intervened by asking local authorities to act, prompting the Russian security service to file charges against four companies for violating fishing laws.
"We were surprised to hear the statements made by the representative or owner of the company that carried out the capture," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.
It was Alexei Reshetov, general manager of Afalina, one of the companies that captured the cetaceans, who reported that the animals are his property and would not be released voluntarily:
“Any questions regarding their release can only be asked after I have been deprived of my property rights. These mammals are my property. I have not made any decision on the release and I have no intention of doing so ”.
We are talking about 11 killer whales. put up for sale to be shipped to China, along with 90 belugas. Today at least three belugas and an orca are missing, apparently missing. Nobody knows what happened to them.
"We intend to refresh the memory on the list of orders given by the president: there is no need to give other orders, since everything has been clearly formulated, and we can now say that these orders are not carried out, at least partially, and therefore we will now study in which side these orders are not being implemented, ”Peskov replies.
The fact is that even today, months after the discovery of their existence, Russian marine prisons continue to lock up in narrow spaces and without the possibility of free swimming belugas and killer whales. The situation remains dramatic.
Roberta Ragni
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