Another whale stranding made the news in Australia this week - the second large whale stranding this month. This time, eighty seven long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) and five dolphins were found stranded on the beach at Hamelin Bay, south of Perth in Western Australia early Monday 23 March.  A few of the animals were returned to sea,  but more than 70 whales died on the beach.

On 2nd March, nearly 200 Pilot Whales and a few Bottlenose Dolphins stranded on King Island off the north-west coast of Tasmania. About 140 of the whales died.

54 pilot whales and the five dolphins were rescued from the beach and guided out to sea by island residents, volunteers and parks and wildlife staff. One of them cam back onshore again overnight