Battle to save weakened whale lost in the Seine

The Beluga was first seen in the river earlier this week

French authorities are tracking a Beluga whale that strayed into the Seine River. Picture: Francois Mori/AP

French environmentalists were hoping to feed a catch of herring to a worryingly thin Beluga whale that has strayed far from its Arctic habitat into France’s Seine River.

They fear that the ethereal white mammal is slowly starving in the waterway that flows through Paris and beyond.