Video footage has been released this afternoon showing 145 dead pilot whales beached on an isolated bay on Rakiura/Stewart Island. A Department of Conservation (Doc) spokeswoman said the stranded whales were found by a tramper camping in the area. Up to 145 pilot whales have stranded and died on a remote beach on Rakiura/Stewart Island over the weekend. On Sunday, 10 pygmy killer whales stranded at 90 Mile Beach in Northland. A dead female pygmy sperm whale also washed up at Ohiwa in the Bay of Plenty over the weekend.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 25, 2018 23:17 UTC