Nearly 500 pilot whales in New Zealand died after 2 mass strandings last week — just weeks after roughly 200 pilot whales died after a mass stranding in Australia.
The whales were stranded on two beaches on New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands. The first group of 232 pilot whales came ashore on Friday, followed by a second group of 245 whales on Monday, according to aWhile some of the whales were dead on arrival, the others were euthanized to minimize suffering, the DOC said in its press release.
"We do not actively refloat whales on the Chatham Islands due to the risk of shark attack to humans and the whales themselves, so euthanasia was the kindest option," Dave Lundquist, a technical adviser marine for the DOC, said in the press release.This is one of the larger events for mass strandings in New Zealand. While we experience large mass strandings at Farewell Spit, these events average 70-80 whales," Project Jonah said in the press in its post.
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