The plan to transport millions of River Severn elvers to the pristine Vistula and Curonian lagoons is a viable way to conserve the species, says Peter Wood
Millions of critically endangered eels have indeed been exported from Britain to Russia this year, but this is not “bonkers”, as Andrew Kerr of the Sustainable Eel Group claims, as it is a project to conserve the species that was in development before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia (UK export of millions of endangered eels to Russia attacked as ‘bonkers’, 22 October).
Juvenile eels are transported from the Severn estuary to the Vistula and Curonian lagoons, which Russia shares with Poland and Lithuania. Unlike the River Severn, the lagoons are pristine habitats for eels, with unrestricted migratory pathways to the Baltic and thence to their breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/08/why-exporting-endangered-eels-to-russia-makes-sense
Author : Guardian Staff
Publish date : 2024-11-08 18:07:10
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