Chloé Lagadou, edited by Gauthier Delomez 7:19 p.m., August 04, 2022
Two months after the discovery of an orca, which ended up succumbing in the waters of the Seine, a beluga was seen in the river a few dozen kilometers from Paris.
According to Lamya Essemlali, director of Sea Sheperd France, the arrival of this white dolphin could be caused by noise disturbances.
How can a beluga end up in the Seine, a few dozen kilometers from Paris, when this white dolphin is usually observed in the waters of the St. Lawrence River in Canada?
Passers-by noticed that an animal of this species was present in the French river.
Europe 1 spoke with Lamya Essemlali, director of Sea Sheperd France.
"A beluga in the Seine is completely new, like the killer whale in the Seine", she recalls at the microphone of Europe 1, in reference to this animal stuck last June and who ended up dying there. .
“In barely two months apart, we have absolutely incredible events happening,” concedes the association activist, who puts forward a hypothesis.
The hypothesis of noise disturbances
"What is likely are sound disturbances. Cetaceans are extremely sensitive to noise, they navigate using their sonar, their internal ears", explains Lamya Essemlali, who sees this as the reason for this impromptu arrival. .
"There is a lot of noise pollution at the mouth of Le Havre. These are extremely disturbing factors," she says.
Lamya Essemlali also adds that this can also happen "when you find bombs from the Second World War. The explosions generate a lot of noise and can have serious repercussions on cetaceans".
"These are hypotheses that we will have to dig", she warns, "there is something abnormal in this situation".