Another dead dolphin found on the Black Sea coast

Two large dead mammals were found on a sandbank within the Tuzli Estuaries National Park.

This was reported by Doctor of Biological Sciences and employee of the Tuzli Lymany National Park Ivan Rusev.  

According to him, information has also recently appeared about dead dolphins found on the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria. Also, in recent days, the remains of two large dead dolphins (over 100 kg each) were found within the national park on a sandbank – a white-beaked dolphin and a bottlenose dolphin.

“The animals probably died for more than one and a half to two months in the sea waters near the occupied Crimea, or in the waters near the Krasnodar Territory. They were then carried by a powerful current and waves to the shores of the North-Western part of the Black Sea. We do not know the causes of death for certain, but such a fate of the animals occurred only from the impact of the brutal war,” Ivan Rusev noted.

He also recalled that in the first years of the full-scale war, dolphins died en masse, with an estimated 80,000 Black Sea cetaceans dying in just three years.

Recall that in June 2025, a dead white-beaked dolphin was found near the Tuzli Estuaries National Park. At the same time, a dead minke whale was also found in Romania. Scientists do not rule out that the mammals could have died from fuel oil in the Kerch Strait, or from the sonars of Russian ships near Novorossiysk.