Tag: Farewell Spit New Zeland

• Monday, February 13th 2017 - 09:14 UTC

  Some 200 stranded whales in New Zealand managed to refloat, but 350 have died

  

  Some 200 stranded whales in New Zealand managed to refloat themselves overnight and swim away, while volunteers managed to save another 17 whales at high tide. More than 650 pilot whales had beached themselves along Farewell Spit at the tip of the South Island in two separate mass stranding over recent days.