One of New Zealand’s largest whale strandings in history has created a disgusting threat to beachgoers and volunteers on Farewell Spit nature reserve in Golden Bay: exploding whales.
More than 600 and possibly as many as 700 pilot whales became stranded on the beach at the northern tip of the South Island the past three days.
In the aftermath of rescue efforts, some successful, the beach was littered with hundreds of ticking time bombs in the form of whale carcasses … More