11 Aug 2026
Photo by Phil Hearing Two whales that washed up and died on the north Norfolk coast between Mundesley and Trimingham on Monday 4 August remain unidentified more than a week later, after experts from the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) said the animals looked unlike any known example of their initially suspected species. A […]
05 May 2026
Photo by Todd Cravens A humpback whale that spent more than five weeks stranded in the shallow waters of Germany’s Baltic Sea coast has been released into the North Sea, after a privately funded rescue team loaded it onto a specially adapted barge and towed it hundreds of kilometres to deeper water. The whale, […]
24 Aug 2015
WDC: ‘The findings of a new government report into the causes of a mass stranding of pilot whales in the Kyle of Durness, Scotland in 2011 have revealed that military exercises in the area at the time were the probable cause of the deaths of 20 whales. In July 2011, WDC staff assisted BDMLR in a long […]