DEAD BABY DOLPHIN IN POLLUTED WATERS Amost half of the St. Lucie River Dolphin are sick and diseased with tumors,fungal growths and viral infections. Two new diseases found are lobomycosis and a tumor inducing herpes virus. Scientists and researchers are finding the dolphin to have an increased resistance to antibiotics which may indicate certain drugs are entering our waterways. They discovered flame retardants(polybrominated diphenyl ethers(PBDE's) used in foams and plastics in the dolphin tissue. Researchers and Scientists agree that the dolphin are getting sicker.
Everyone interested and concerned with dolphin health and CLEAN WATERWAYS!
Below is a short video showing the polluted condition of this once beautiful river. Thank you for taking the time to care..
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Defender of the Everglades
"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them..."
Indian Riverkeeper Kevin Stinnette
pictured with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.TILL TAUGHT BY PAIN, MEN KNOW NOT WATER'S WORTH.
A television series inspired by the movie, Flipper, ran from 1964-67. MITZI, the first Flipper(a female dolphin), was trained at the Santini Porpoise School, later the Dolphin Research Center, by Milton Santini. Mitzi died in 1972 at age fourteen. She is buried at the Dolphin Research Center, where her grave is the first stop on the center's public tours.Whether it's the creek that meanders through town, the lake where we fish and swim, the majestic oceans and beaches that inspire our awe of nature, or simply the glass of water we drink, clean water is essential to our well-being. We must protect, preserve and restore our oceans, rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands and coastal waters, and promote conservation and better water management in the State of Florida and around the world.
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