Galicia is an area of many marine animals that are dragged by the currents and the storms to the coasts, where beach a few 300 copies a year in bad weather, of which 90 % appear dead.
The geographical position of the galician Community makes it one of the areas that most strandings are collected and treated across Europeand in fact the figures do not fall out of 260 animals per year until reaching, in 2013, 330 with the current winter, explained in statements to Efe the director-general of Nature Conservation of the regional Government, Veronica Tellado.
In the past two years, have been attended by more than 650 individuals in Galicia.
To consolidate and improve the work of rescue of the Network of Strandings in Galicia, the Department of Environment, Territory and Infrastructures, through the Directorate General of Nature Conservation, organized from today and for two days in Oleiros training sessions on the attention to these situations that suffers the marine fauna threatened in the community.
Pontevedra is the province of the galician coast is more significant in this topic, as well as the city councils of A Coruña and Ribeira, where varan, primarily cetaceans, such as whales and especially dolphins, to represent in this latter case 50% of the total, followed by sea lions and turtles.
Veronica Tellado ensures that the work of recovery of these animals are “very satisfactory” when they appear live, and in fact often take several months of personal involvement until the copy gets out ahead.
However, this occurs only in 10% of cases, and not in all of them, you can then reintroduce the animal in its natural environment.
In these days, which have now been held in Vigo, and after A Coruña will continue in Lugo, is way to the over one hundred attendees for the technical Coordinator for the Study of Marine Mammals (CEMMA) on the identification of the various species, the case in Galicia, the attendance at strandings and the recovery of these animals, as well as with practices of rescue.
The Network of Strandings in Galicia develops these jobs from the year 1990 through mobile units to treat the animals, in collaboration with physical campuses, where they remain, depending on the species.
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