Rescuers ‘working around the clock’ to save beluga whale trapped in the River Seine

Rescuers say a beluga whale which is caught within the River Seine is dangerously underweight.

The misplaced whale was first seen close to Paris earlier this week, many miles from its pure habitat within the Atlantic Ocean.

Drone footage exhibits the whale swimming down the river between the French capital and Rouen, many dozens of miles inland.

Environmentalists have been working since Friday to feed a catch of herring to the mammal.

Authorities within the l’Eure area mentioned in a Friday evening assertion the whale has a ‘fleeing behaviour vis-a-vis the boats’ and has not responded to makes an attempt to information it to safer waters.

The folks making an attempt to assist it are being as unobtrusive as attainable to ‘keep away from stress that would irritate his state of well being’, in keeping with the assertion.

‘It’s fairly a powerful animal, which is white and which appears calm. It doesn’t appear harassed, surfacing often,’ hearth service officer Patrick Herot, from Normandy’s Eure area, informed French broadcaster TF1.

If rescuers cannot save the whale quickly, it's anticipated it'll slowly starve and die.

French firefighters and divers of the nautic brigade have been serving to (Image: EPA)

The beluga whale has been seen swimming down the river (Image: AFP through Getty Photographs)

Drone footage has been monitoring its actions (Image: AP)

The misplaced beluga may starve to dying if it doesn’t make it again to its habitat quickly (Image: EPA)

Rescuers have been making an attempt to feed it a catch of herring (Credit: AP)

‘It’s condemned to die if it stays within the Seine,’ Lamya Essemlali, the group’s president, informed TF1.

Beluga whale’s are well-known for his or her attribute pale pores and skin and bulbous foreheads.

They're recognized for his or her sociability, as they dwell, hunt and migrate with each other in pods.

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