8 Dolphins Rescued from New Zealand Beach

Sydney (Australia), August 12 (EFE).- 8 dolphins stranded on the beach of Waiheke Island, about 22 kilometers off the coast of Auckland (New Zealand), were rescued this Friday and returned to the sea. New Zealand officials said others died.

Of the total number of stranded dolphins, seven specimens were rescued by the end of the afternoon, while another managed to return to deeper water earlier, according to a statement from New Zealand’s Ministry of Defense. It’s a scene where dolphins, a marine mammal, are often stranded.

“The tide has come in and seven stranded dolphins were successfully rescued this morning,” the Jonah Project, a New Zealand volunteer organization dedicated to saving and protecting marine mammals in New Zealand, said in a message on social media. Worked in the process.

However, two other specimens, an adult and a calf, died in the morning before high tide, according to New Zealand officials.

A volunteer helped keep the remaining dolphins hydrated before the tide came in, pouring buckets of water over them and wrapping them in wet towels to help them survive.

New Zealand and its neighbor Australia are two of the most frequent sightings of cetaceans and dolphins in the Pacific region.

The world’s largest stranding occurred in New Zealand’s Chatham Islands in 1918 when about a thousand pilot whales became stranded in that remote location. Scientists still cannot explain why whales or dolphins sometimes have problems with their navigation and get stranded in shallow water, although it is thought that they are attracted by noise pollution or guided by their heads. EFE

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