Icebreaker on way to save trapped seal cubs

From: The Independent - London | Date: May 12, 2001| Author: Patrick Cockburn in Moscow | Copyright information

A RUSSIAN shipping company is sending a ship to try to save thousands of starving baby seals trapped on ice floes in the White Sea, but it may be too late for many of the pups.

The seals, born in March, should have drifted on the ice back to their usual feeding grounds in the Barents Sea. Strong north-east winds have kept them in the White Sea, where they have nothing to eat. Some 200,000 out of 350,000 cubs are likely to die, according to Vladimir Potelov, a sea mammal expert at the ...

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