Dutch writer, journalist, and essayist Tommy Wieringa arrived at 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.
This was reported by the Tuzly Estuaries National Park.
The writer plans to raise awareness in the Netherlands about Russia’s crimes against people, culture, and the Ukrainian environment.
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, a wave of dolphin deaths swept the Odessa coast.Injustone 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.
