Hi All
NAturally no one really knows what the cause is of all the dead and
dying animals, but given the general health of the human population,
I’d have to guess something is all wrong.
Bridget
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-
1443_1857311,00.html
49 whales dead in New Zealand
01/01/2006 11:56 – (SA)
Wellington – Forty-nine pilot whales died after a mass stranding at
a remote beach on Farewell Spit, at the top of New Zealand’s South
Island, the Department of Conservation announced on Sunday.
Eight of the whales died within a few hours of the pod being
stranded on Saturday and the others had to be shot because the sea
was too rough and the site too remote to launch a rescue operation,
officials said.
A department spokeperson told Radio New Zealand the whales were not
thought to be from the same pod that stranded on Puponga Beach, near
Farewell Spit, before Christmas.
The latest stranding occurred at low tide about one kilometre from
shore and the whales were spread over six hectares.
Department spokesperson Greg Napp said it would have been too
dangerous to try to refloat the whales as anyone who lost their
footing may have been swept out to sea. – Sapa-dpa