WELLINGTON: New Zealand's Conservation Department stays questionable for such a great demise. The mass stranding led to nearly 100 pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins' death on the remote Chatham Islands, near New Zealand's east coast. The officials confirmed the news on Wednesday.
The underwater creatures were stranded during the weekend but the rescue efforts were hindered by the remote location of the island. The DOC of New Zealand confirms in total 97 pilot whales and three dolphins' death in the stranding saying that they were informed of the incident on Sunday. The Department Of Conservation, Biodiversity Ranger Jemma Welch made a statement, "Only 26 of the whales were still alive at this point, the majority of them appearing very weak, and were euthanized due to the rough sea conditions and almost certainty of there being great white sharks in the water which are brought in by a stranding like this." It is also noticed that mass strandings are reasonably common on the Chatham Islands with up to 1,000 animals dying in a single stranding in 1918. Mass whale strandings are recorded in modern history, and why it happens is a question that has puzzled marine biologists for years.
In one of the world's biggest mass whale strandings by late September, several hundred whales died in shallow waters off the Australian coast.
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