A group dedicated to protecting the friendly beluga claim he was deliberately shot.
Warning: This article contains images of the whale’s injuries.Hvaldimir—whose name was a portmanteau of “hval”, the Norwegian word for whale, and the first name of Russia n President—first appeared in the nordic nation’s waters in 2019, wearing what appeared to be a harness for a camera bearing the words “Equipment St. Petersburg.
“I have been with Hvaldimir for the past five years and know him very well,” Regina Haug, the founder of OneWhale, said in a statement. “When I saw his body and the multiple injuries, I immediately knew he had been killed by gunshots. I even saw a bullet lodged in his body.” Anna Victoria Pyne Vinje, a marine biologist with OneWhale, said it is “deeply troubling” that the whale had been “intentionally killed.”
“We do not wish to contribute to public speculation, but we are directly assisting with what we can offer to those working to determine the cause of Hvaldimir’s death,” the statement continued. “Until the cause of death is established by those responsible for the investigation, temporary assumptions will not be useful for anything other than publicity.”
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