Boycott Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the German Oceanographic Museum NOW
The state that deliberately lets a sentient being rot alive for a museum’s free skeleton. For 14 days, the humpback whale Timmy has been abandoned to a slow, agonising death in the shallow waters of the Wismarer Bucht. He lies motionless, breathing only at ever-longer intervals, suffering lung compression, pressure necrosis, hyperthermia, skin blistering and secondary infections — all while fully conscious. International scientific protocols for humane euthanasia exist and have been used successfully on humpback whales of exactly Timmy’s size. The government of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, led by Environment Minister Till Backhaus, has refused every single one of them. This is not incompetence. This is state-sponsored animal cruelty. The German Oceanographic Museum (Deutsches Meeresmuseum) in Stralsund has already publicly expressed interest in Timmy’s carcass. After his death, the body is scheduled to be transported to Dänholm for necropsy. The museum —…



