#sixthmassextinctionevent

[jimabernethy]

#Repost from our Totally Awesome Conservationist friend... @thesharkwarrior @download.ins --- It’s normally a beautiful walk to the wreck on Noordhoek Beach but on Saturday it was different. Thousands of seals are dying on our West coast - they appear to have suffered from malnutrition. Only last week I researched and wrote a post about why this was happening. I did not, however, expect to find so many of them lying scattered along Noordhoek beach, far south from where most are reported. Adults as well as pups, every few metres another one - a few were marked as part of the counting efforts but most were not. I stopped taking photos eventually as there were just too many. In times gone by to see one dead seal on a beach was an occasional sight, and while this is nothing like the piles of dead seals further north, it tells the same story. There’s something seriously going wrong in our oceans, and while scientist are still trying to pin point the cause, looking at the possibility of avian flu, the only thing they have been able to confirm is the malnutrition and convulsions witnessed in some. There’s no denying or escaping the facts that have long since been documented, researched and quantified: overfishing on the West Coast as well as climate change effects on the Benguela is killing our marine life. See my previous post for more on this. The next day I took a hike up to Noordhoek peak which is a stunning vantage point overlooking the long beach walk I did the previous day. And while from up here everything looks beautiful, another story of pain and suffering lies on our beaches and in our oceans. . A @thesharkwarrior photos of a #capefurseal #endemicspecies #climatechangeeffects #overfishing #stravingtodeath #evironmentalcrises #oceansdying #saveourseas #sixthmassextinctionevent #redcodewarning #ecosystemscollapse #decadeonecosystemrestoration #stopfossilfuels #stopoceanpollution #stophabitatdestruction #stopclimatechange #padiambassadiver @wdhof @the_explorers_club @paditv @afrioceans (at South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVyLzd3vHzK/?utm_medium=tumblr