More than 20,000 Guillemots have been found dead on the coast of Netherlands taking the scientific community by shock. The ecologically unsuitable and mindless developmental pursuits around the globe have destructed the environment at an unprecedented rate.
The New Leam Staff
The images that are emerging from Holland are heart breaking. As hundreds of guillemots are washed ashore and scientists are left wondering about how so many of them could die in such a sudden manner, the world is in a mood of sorrow looking at the large pile composed of the birds’ bodies.
The scientists are wondering what could be the cause of the deaths of an estimated 20,000 guillemots off the coast of Netherlands. These are birds that spend most of their lives at sea where they dive again and again to look for food but when the bodies of the birds started to emerge in great numbers over the last few months it caused a sense of worry not just for scientists but for the larger world. It has been reported by biologists that such mass deaths of these birds had not been seen after the 1980s and said that to find so many birds dead in today’s contemporary times is nothing but a major concern.
The birds are going through a rough phase as far as their health is concerned and a large number of them have been taken to nearby sanctuaries for treatment. Scientists who are researching on this topic have found that one of the major reasons for this mass death can be the change in climate but they assert that there is something more to the climate that may have caused the birds to die. Many of the birds who were scrutinized showed signs of failing guts and malnourished bodies due to starvation.
The result of the scientists will only be found when a greater number of birds have been examined but what we know as of the moment is the fact that starvation, difficulty in finding food within the purview of sea and resultant malnourished bodies are among the reasons for the death of the birds.
One of the possible reasons for the mass death of these birds is said to be the disposal of the contents of 291 containers that were found sinking in the water after the storm wrecked a ship carrying the in the first week of January. Contamination of the waters from the contents of the containers could be a possible reason for the death of the birds in large number. Scientists predict that it can be the chemicals and the plastics that have been released from these containers that have led to this problem.
As more birds get dissected in the coming days it will become clear what the real causes may be. It has been estimated that thus far more than 130,000 birds have been found dead. The deaths of guillemots shall remind us of the insensitive and mindless development that we have been so obsessed with and which has disturbed the ecology so strongly.
