The government of Spain is creating a new in the Mediterranean Sea that will serve as a migration area for whales and dolphins to house them.
Spread over nearly 18,000 square miles, the protected reserve will add great value. As the government announced, the area “is of great ecological value and represents a migration path of vital importance for cetaceans in the Western Mediterranean.”
“This is the end of new prospecting or any type of extraction of fossil fuels” in the protected area, as the Spain’s minister for ecological transition, Teresa Ribera says.
The species Spain hopes to protect are Fin whales, sperm whales, grey sperm whales, pilot whales, Cuvier’s beaked whales, bottlenose dolphins, striped dolphins, common dolphins and loggerhead turtles.
