Officials said on Wednesday that naval experts abandoned hope for saving more than 150 wrongful killer whales on a far beach in Tasmania, on the island of Australia.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment said that experts, including veterinarians, were at the scene of the accident near the Arthur River on the northwestern coast of Tasmania, where 157 whales were discovered on the open surfing beach on Tuesday afternoon.
Shelli Graham, an accident observer, said that unfavorable conditions and weather conditions, which were prevented from saving them on Wednesday, had lasted for several days.
“We went out in the water this morning and tried to transport them and tried to reformulate the whales, but we did not achieve success because the circumference conditions did not allow animals to abandon the first half. Graham said in a statement,” The animals are constantly earning. “
The marine biologist Chris Carlion said that the survivors would be eliminated.
“The more these animals were cut off, the more they suffer from their suffering. Callionon said that all alternative options did not work.”
The administration said that there are 136 survivors on Wednesday morning, but this evaluation was revised to 90 within a few hours.
The inability to access the beach, ocean conditions and challenges facing specialized equipment to the remote area are complicated by the response.
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The weight of small whales is less than 500 kilograms (1100 pounds), while adults weigh three metric tons (3.3 tons of American). Despite their name, the wrongful killer whales is one of the largest members of the Dolphin family.
In this photo presented by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania, a woman inspects a whale after more than 150 wrongful fatal whales were cut off on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, on a far beach on the Arthur River in Australia in Australia Tasmania.
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Brendon Clark, the department’s contact official, said the cylinder was the first by the wrongful killer whales in Tasmania since 1974. This was a pod from more than 160 lanes that landed on a beach near Stanley on the northwestern coast. The threads are usually in Tasmania experimental whales.
Clark refused to speculate about the reason they were cut off with more surgery. He said that dead whales bodies will be examined in search of evidence.
He said that the helicopter survey decided on Tuesday afternoon that there was no other whale, 10 km (6 miles) from the road.
They could have been cut off for up to 48 hours by early Wednesday.
Jocelin Flint, a resident of Arthur River, said her son discovered the whales that were cut off in the middle of the night while fishing to the shark.
She said she went to the scene in the dark hours of the morning and returned after dawn, but the whales were very large so that they could not be renovated.
“The water was rising up and they were crushing. Flint said on Wednesday morning:” They are only dying, they drowned in the sand. “I think it was too late.
There are young children. Until one end, there is a lot of adults. It is sad.
In 2022, they were cut off 230 experimental whales south on the western coast of Macquarie.
The largest fans in Australian history occurred in the same port in 2020 when 470 experimental whales have long been stuck on Sandbars. Most beach whales died in both cases.
The causes of the beaches are unclear. Causes can include confusion caused by loud noise, disease, aging, infection, fleeing animals and harsh weather.
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