News Source: Uinta County News
| 6 months ago
Kommetjie launched a rescue craft at 11am on Sunday to attempt to recover a whale carcass from rocks at Kommetjie Lighthouse. "We will attempt to tow the carcass to Kommetjie’s Long Beach for removal by the City of Cape Town officials. "The...
News Source: I Africa
| 6 months ago
Attempts to rescue a pod of stranded false killer whales on Kommetjie Beach in the Western Cape ended with 44 of the mammals being euthanised, a government scientist said on Sunday. "We euthanised 42, and another two were euthanised during the night,"...
News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| 6 months ago
55 whales die after mass beaching in South Africa At least 55 whales stranded on a beach near Cape Town were put down or died after rescue teams failed to return them to the ocean, a sea rescue institute said on Sunday. Scientists shot 42 of the...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| 6 months ago
South Africa officials have shot dead some 35 whales in a group of 55 stranded on a beach in the south of the country after efforts to save them failed, scientists have said...Ten others died on the shore, and the rest were shot to end their...
News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 6 months ago
S cientists decided to kill more than 30 beached whales that resisted frantic efforts to push them back out to sea near South Africa's storm-lashed southern tip, media reported Saturday. Nan Rice, head of the Dolphin Action and Protection group said...
News Source: The independent
| 6 months ago
Dozens of pilot whales beached this morning near the storm-lashed tip of South Africa, prompting a massive rescue operation. Rescuers were using six bulldozers to push the 55 whales back into the water, but "as soon as we put them back into the sea,...