A decision has been made to give the body to the Natural History Museum after all the tests are complete and it will clean the bones and preserve them for scientific research. The museum has had the right to examine all whale carcasses that wash ashore in Britain since 1913.
In most cases when it comes to disposing of the flesh, if a carcass contains poisonous substances – from chemicals dumped in the sea – it will be classed as toxic waste and have to be incinerated. If untoxic, it will probably be disposed of in a landfill site.
As for the voluntary organisation that tried to rescue the whale, British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), there is no onus on the government, the city, the Queen or anyone else to cover the cost of the rescue attempt, which reportedly includes more than £300 worth of parking fines.
Source: BBC News
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The parking fines have been waived – the local council have a heart after all – unlike the traffic wardens who issued the tickets. Perhaps the wardens were unable to read ‘Marine Rescue’, and the note left in the vehicle explaining they were rescuing the whale. But more than likely they were under pressure to achieve their targets for issuing tickets, and the rescue vehicles were an easy nab.
This is the alternative BBC news report.
That’s a horrible ‘alternative’ report. I can’t tell whether you’re serious or in jest, but I think that people are interested in the whale because it’s an escape from the death and destruction and lies and business and stress and pollution and noise. It’s a real live animal that we’re always fighting to protect from whalers and fishing fleets and boats and submarines that when we see a real live one we adore it. We want to know everything and want to observe.
I do not want to mock it or reduce its importance. I am in love with whales.
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To be honest though, I think the most important place to link to is http://www.whalewatch.org because so much of the time people don’t realize that how threatened whales are…