Young killer whale dies from entanglement on the shore of OrkneyThe young killer whale was already dead when it washed ashore on Papa Westray on the Scottish Orkney Islands at the beginning of the...
Over 100 dead porpoises washed up on the Dutch coast in unexplainable mass stranding The Netherlands usually see between 200 and 900 porpoises washed up on their beaches every year. However, finding more than 100 dead...
Fin whale dies on the shores of DelawareThe big whale was first reported stranded on a sandbank near The Point in Lewes, Delaware. Together with the Delaware National Resource...
Unusual mass stranding in Scotland leaves five bottlenose dolphins deadThe British Divers Marine Life Rescue team (BDMLR) was first alerted to a strangely behaving pod of dolphins at Cromarty Firth, Scotland....
Stranding of Fraser's dolphin linked to novel Morbillivirus strainAfter two years of investigating the death of a stranded Fraser’s dolphin in Maui, Hawaii, researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at...
Stranding of Orca calf mobilizes hundreds in New ZealandThe stranding of an orphaned orca has kept New Zealand on its toes during the last two weeks. The baby killer whale, thought to be...
Nine stranded whales rescued in a desperate rescue attemptThe twelve melon-headed whales were found stranded in a mudflat hundreds of metres from the shore in Linhai, eastern China. Several...
Nearly 100 whales die in mass stranding in New ZealandNew Zealand has become the sad location of another mass stranding last weekend, when nearly 100 stranded whales were reported to New...
New ecolabel certifies „Whale safe“ shipping and cruise companies Ship strikes and collisions are a major threat for marine mammals. In the Mediterranean, one of five stranded whales show markings of...
Grey whales developed a successful strategy to counteract North-Pacific die-offThe grey whale population along the North Pacific has suffered from two major unusual mortality events during the last two decades. Far...
2020 marks record year of dead loggerhead turtles in Mexico as situation escalatesAccording to newly published data by the Mexican government, more than 1,088 North Pacific loggerhead turtles died in 2020 in the Mexican...
Stranded whales help answer mysteries of elusive speciesBeaked whales are estimated to make up more than 25% of cetaceans, however, the toothed whales are elusive and therefore incredibly...
IWDG launches new app for reporting whale and dolphin sightingsCoinciding with the National Biodiversity week in Ireland, the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group just launched a new app to report dolphins...
Cuvier’s beaked whale dies with 16 kg of plastic in its stomachThe Cuvier’s beaked whale was found half composed on the coast of Messanges, southwest France, on May 8th. An autopsy carried out by the...
Three more dead gray whales wash up in San Francisco Bay within a weekThe three dead whales found in San Francisco Bay at the beginning of May all belonged to the decreasing West Coast population of gray...
Rare stranding of the arctic blue whale in NamibiaThe arctic population of blue whales that reside around Africa are highly endangered with less than 1% of its original pre-whaling size...
Necropsies shed light on the mass whale stranding in IndonesiaThough marine mammal strandings are common in the rich waters of Indonesia, the pilot whale mass stranding in February was an especially...
Free Zoom conference on stranded marine mammals on April 27th The free live Zoom presentation “Stranded! Marine Mammal Response in the Northern Half of Maine” will be held by Rosemary Seton of Allied...
Heavy wave of stranded dolphins in Cape Cod BayCape Cod Bay becomes a hotspot for dolphin strandings when the tide goes out. For the local rescue teams, the last month has been...
Why do whales strand? A multinational National Geographic report National Geographic has published an easy-to-read, comprehensive article on the reasons marine mammals beach themselves. The phenomenon...
