Pictures – Rare Whale Found Washed up at Lekki Beach in Lagos

A pygmy Whale that was washed up ashore at the Lekki Beach in Lagos on Wednesday, according to reports,

a big fish showed up ‘stranded’ at the Magbon-Alade area of Ibeju Lekki and (expectedly), residents of the area went to work with their machetes and cutlasses butchering the ‘poor’ animal for food.

The pygmy sperm whale is covered by the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas and the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area. In addition, the species is further included in the Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Conservation of the Manatee and Small Cetaceans of Western Africa and Macaronesia and the Memorandum of Understanding for the Conservation of Cetaceans and Their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region.

So, technically, what happened yesterday was poaching, punishable under international law!