There were a series of high-profile pilot whale strandings last year in the south Pacific, including incidents in New Zealand and on the Australian island of Tasmania, where hundreds of whales died.

"There are many natural causes ... as well as other factors." Officials make difficult decision after discovering 90 whales ...

Rescuers are trying to free a pod of long-finned pilot whales stranded off the Australian island of Tasmania. Around 470 whales are in the pod, more than half of which have already died ...

That was a pod of more than 160 whales that landed on a beach near Stanley on the northwest coast. Strandings in Tasmania are usually pilot whales. The largest mass stranding in Australian history ...

Mass strandings are not uncommon on Tasmania's west coast. Around 470 pilot whales stranded further south at Macquarie Harbour near Strahan in 2020 and another 200 become stranded in the same ...

Challenging surf conditions forced rescuers to abandon their efforts to save a pod of 157 stranded false killer whales.

"So, [it's a] bit of a natural whale trap, unfortunately, our west coast." In 2022, 230 pilot whales became stranded further south at Macquarie Heads, two years after 470 beached themselves in the ...

That was a pod of more than 160 whales that landed on a beach near Stanley on the northwest coast. Strandings in Tasmania are usually pilot whales. Clark declined to speculate on why the latest ...