Tag: mass stranding

• Friday, September 25th 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Grim experience for Australian authorities, euthanizing and disposing of some 400 whale carcasses

  

  Australian officials were focusing on the grim task of disposing of almost 400 whale carcasses on Thursday, while attempts to rescue the few remaining survivors of one of the world’s worst mass strandings were expected to extend another day.

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  Some 20 pilot whales die stranded in Iceland in mysterious circumstances

  

  Some 20 pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland, emergency services said on Saturday, only two weeks after a similarly unexplained mass stranding had already killed dozens of the long-finned cetaceans.