(Tommy Wiringa. PHOTO: Tuzly Estuaries)
<span><span><span><span><span><span>Dutch writer, journalist, and essayist Tommy Wieringa arrived at </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span>the Tuzly Estuaries National Nature Park. He came to gather information about the war’s impact on Ukraine’s environment, particularly its effects on dolphins and other wildlife.</span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span><span><span><span><span><span>This was reported by the Tuzly Estuaries National Park. </span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span><span><span><span><span><span>The writer plans to raise awareness in the Netherlands about Russia’s crimes against people, culture, and the Ukrainian environment.</span></span></span></span></span></span>
Tommy Wieringa has long explored issues of the environment, the climate crisis, and the relationship between humans and nature in his work.
Environmental themes are central to his latest novel, *Nirvana* (2023). In it, the author draws a parallel between World War II and the current climate crisis, which he calls the “age of burning.”
In the novel *Caesarion* (2009), the plot unfolds against the backdrop of a real-life ecological disaster—the large-scale erosion of England’s rocky coastline. Here, the North Sea mercilessly devours the land year after year. This relentless onslaught of nature against the protagonists’ cottage becomes a powerful metaphor for the inevitable destruction of their personal illusions and toxic family secrets.
In addition to fiction, the writer regularly devotes his non-fiction work to environmental issues. In interviews and essays, he advocates for radical forest restoration. The writer also collaborates with tree-planting foundations
Earlier<span><span><span><span><span><span>, a wave of dolphin deaths swept the Odessa coast.</span></span></span></span></span></span>In<span><span><span><span><span><span>just</span></span></span></span></span></span>one day, more than 20 dead cetaceans were found along a 25-kilometer stretch. The actual number of dead animals could reach the thousands, since, according to experts’ estimates, more than 90% of marine mammal carcasses do not wash ashore.
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