Beached Humpback Whale in Samoa
At aprox. 10am on the 23rd October a tourist noticed a beached Humpback on Samoa beach. Thankfully the visitor knew to call wildlife...
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Quick thinking locals save bottlenose dolphin from stranding
According to the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group, Bottlenose dolphins are rarely live stranded. Nevertheless, it was thanks to a quick...
Call for Whale Response Protocol in Ireland
Local news in the UK and Ireland have been dotted with several stranding reports of large cetaceans during the last month. After the fin...
Satellite imagery as a valuable asset in evaluating baleen strandings in remote areas
Strandings can provide important information on the composition of populations, their wellbeing and the health of their environment as...
West coast expects rising number of gray whale stranding events this season
Gray whales have the longest migration route known amongst mammals, traveling up to 12,000 miles (19,321 km) between Mexico and Alaska...
Analysing stranding records can provide basic information for conservation efforts
Effective conservation is based on a variety of data such as species richness, life-history parameters of populations and temporal and...
Whale sighted in the Thames found dead
The humpback whale was first seen on Monday morning, swimming freely in the Thames. Finding humpback whales stranded on UK shores, let...
Entangled baleen whales in Orkney
Two entanglement incidents occurred around the Orkney islands in the last two weeks. A humpback whale had been found stranded and...
New research allows scientists to calucate whale weight from drone images
By taking aerial images, researchers in the Valdes Peninsula (Argentina) have been able to use the length, width and height measurements...
Two mass strandings in Georgia with different outcomes
After the mass stranding in July, where 47 pilot whales came precariously close to the shoreline, a second mass stranding event involving...
Social media reach out to facilitate appropriate reaction
The UK charity Brighton Dolphin Project issued an ‘important safety notice’ after several reports on different marine mammals washed up...
Juvenile sperm whale stranded on Maryland shore
A young sperm whale was washed ashore in Ocean City in Maryland, United States, on September 16th. After being reported by local citizens...
More than 160 Melon-Headed Whales found stranded in Capo Verde
Over 130 whales have died on the coast of Boa Vista Island (Capo Verde) in a mass stranding event that is currently unexplained. Reports...
Update on the Mass stranding in Hawaii
As mentioned in a previous post, on the 29 of August a group of pygmy killer whales, at first believed to be melon headed whales, was...
Three stranded porpoises on the Solway Firth, United Kingdom
One of the animals was seen “thrashing about” and the other two were at first believed to be dead, near Torduff Point, on the 26 of...
Stranding numbers on the rise in the UK
A seven-year review by the UK Government, led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), discovered that the number of cetaceans washed...
Pregnant Melon-Headed Whale washed ashore in Tobago
A young Melon-Headed whale which had been pregnant with an almost full-term calf was found dead at Princess Bay in Argyle, Tobago in the...
Nearly 300-pounds loggerhead turtle stranded after Hurricane Dorian
A massive loggerhead sea turtle was found stranded on Lewes Beach, Delaware, on the 7th of September 2019. This animal was the only one...
Mass stranding in Hawaii
Ten melon-headed whales have been washed ashore on the Hawaiian island of Maui at the end of August. While one calf was found dead 1.5...
Injured whales and turtle stranded on the Philippine shores
Two whales and a turtle were found stranded on Philippine shores during recent days. The first was a short-finned pilot whale, washed...
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