In a tweet, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) said that a team from the Ministry made an urgent intervention following a report of the death of a dolphin at Al Thakhira Beach.

قام فريق من وزارة البيئة والتغير المناخي بتدخل عاجل إثر بلاغ بوجود نفوق دولفين بشاطئ الذخيرة، حيث قام الفريق بالمعاينة وأخذ القياسات الحيوية للحيوان الذي يبلغ طوله ٢٢٧ سم وارتفاعه ٧٠ سم،
وهو عبارة عن دولفين ذكر كبير متقدم بالعمر، من نوع دلافين المحيط الهادي والهندي. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/O2E8OTrrvq

— وزارة البيئة والتغير المناخي - قطر | MOECC Qatar (@moecc_qatar) June 3, 2022

The team inspected and took the biological measurements of the animal, which is 227 cm long and 70 cm high. The Ministry said that it was a large, old male dolphin, a type of dolphin of the Pacific and Indo-Pacific.

"There are no signs on him that he collided with a ship or that he was stuck in a fishing net, and it turned out that he lost 7 teeth on each side of the jawbone and his body was slender and this indicates that he had died of starvation or old age. After completing the necessary measurements, the body was buried and its location recorded so that it could be retrieved in the future", said the Ministry.

The Ministry called upon seafarers to cooperate with it quickly to report such cases, take the necessary measures and follow up on everything related to the marine environment in the State of Qatar.

Source and cover image credit: MOECC

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