Deze Leidraad is van toepassing bij een (dreigende) stranding van een levende, grote walvisachtige. Het doel is duidelijk maken wie verantwoordelijk is voor welke actie. Zodoende kunnen alle betrokkenen adequaat handelen. >> Download het document …
Around 2000 cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are stranded each year across the world and, unfortunately, this number is likely to increase in the coming years. Cornelis van Elk and colleagues studied harbour porpoise strandings along the Dutch and neighboring coastlines between 2003 and 2016 in order to better understand and identify the causes of […]
We test the ability of Very High Resolution satellite (VHR) imagery to detect stranded whales using both manual and automated methods. We use the 2015 mass mortality event in the Gulf of Penas locality, central Patagonia, Chile, as an initial case study. This event was the largest known mass mortality of baleen whales, with at […]
The reiteration of cetacean strandings and the possible responses to this growing phenomenon were addressed in the Falkland Islands by the Environmental Committee at the Department of Agriculture in Stanley. >> read more …
To prevent the deaths of animals that wash up on its shores, the government has sought to establish a network of first responders to deal with strandings. >> read more …
For more than two years, scientists have been working to figure out the underlying cause of a so-called “unusual mortality event. From January 2016 to mid-February 2019, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recorded 88 humpback whale strandings with New York, Virginia, and Massachusetts at the top of the list. Those numbers are more than double […]
WILDLIFE experts have raised concerns after an “unusual” number of marine mammals were found washed up along the Dorset coast recently. >> read more …
Experts have recorded 30 dead dolphins and porpoises which have been washed up on Cornwall’s coastline in January alone. It includes two recent dead animals washed up on the beaches at Par and Porthtowan. Another dolphin was stranded and died on the Rame peninsula at the weekend. >> read more …
Trois baleines en décomposition, deux bébés phoques (dont un vivant) et au moins un dauphin commun mort, ont été découverts ces derniers jours échoués sur la côte en Bretagne Sud. Les vents forts venus du large la semaine dernière expliquent ces arrivages. >> Lire plus …
Een walvis op een Belgisch strand, het blijft een uniek beeld. Toch is de vinvis in De Haan lang niet de eerste walvisachtige die in ons land is aangespoeld. Een trieste geschiedenis van 30 jaar gestrande zeereuzen. >> lees verder …
Daar is hij dan: de live opname van Mardik Leopolds WURtalk over strandingen van walvissen! Zijn die strandingen onze schuld, of is er eigenlijk helemaal niets aan de hand? Kijk nu voor het antwoord.
The number of dolphins and whales washing up on Irish coasts reached record levels last year, according to the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG). Some 263 cetacean strandings were reported around all of Ireland, 44 more than the last highest level in 2013. >> read more …