{"id":68165,"date":"2021-04-18T13:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/?p=68165"},"modified":"2022-01-04T18:15:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:15:49","slug":"el-mercurio-de-antofagasta-entrevista-a-sonia-espanol-con-respecto-al-varamiento-de-una-ballena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/el-mercurio-de-antofagasta-entrevista-a-sonia-espanol-con-respecto-al-varamiento-de-una-ballena\/","title":{"rendered":"[El Mercurio de Antofagasta] Interview with Sonia Espa\u00f1ol Regarding Whale Stranding"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>This is an excerpt of the interview with Sonia Espa\u00f1ol, leader of the cetacean area of MERI Foundation regarding the stranding of a whale in Antofagasta.<\/h6>\n<p>A humpback whale was also recently found dead in the Strait of Magellan after colliding with a vessel, said the leader of MERI\u2019s cetacean area and director of \u201cThe Blue BOAT Initiative\u201d, Sonia Espa\u00f1ol-Jim\u00e9nez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a reminder that these events are far more common than we think, and more so if we consider that whales usually do not come to shore, so we do not know the exact numbers of whales affected by ship strikes,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she noted that these events may be on the rise due to the increase of vessels in Chile and the oceans in general over the years.<\/p>\n<p>It should be remembered that whales play a key role in the oceans as \u201cengineers\u201d so the loss of a single animal influences the balance of the planet\u2019s seas due to their role in the fight against climate change, added Espa\u00f1ol-Jim\u00e9nez.\u2028\u2028\u201cThese events highlight the importance of protecting whales from vessels, not only because of ship strikes but also because of the noise they generate, which also disturbs them. That is why initiatives such as The Blue BOAT Initiative, which is being carried out in the Corcovado Gulf by MERI and the Ministry of the Environment and seeks to install a network of smart buoys to warn vessels of whales, could be a real solution to this problem, which is becoming more and more notorious,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68166\" src=\"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG-20210418-WA0013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG-20210418-WA0013.jpg 566w, https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG-20210418-WA0013-133x300.jpg 133w, https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG-20210418-WA0013-453x1024.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excerpt of the interview with Sonia Espa\u00f1ol, leader of the cetacean area of MERI Foundation regarding the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,181],"tags":[198],"class_list":{"0":"post-68165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-meri","8":"category-blue-boat","9":"tag-sonia-espanol"},"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["es","en"],"languages":{"es":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionmeri.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}