Climate change is the most likely reason.
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We have had beachings of one species or another and always in large numbers over the last few years. There’s not enough funding to explore why it happens.
It could be the climate emergency, the use of sonars on ships that throw off their navigation, it could be the drifting of the magnetic poles, or simply geologic. That part has an interesting combination of bathymetry and very strong currents.
Or a combination of a number of these factors.
fuck.
"Following expert veterinary assessment we have made the decision to euthanise the animals," incident controller Shelley Graham told reporters. "That's likely to be the course of action for all 90."
I wish I could meet the people that make these evil and selfish decisions.
They just don't want to spend the money.
Not to disagree that they probably don't want to spend money on helping them, but it also may be too late
A lot of beachings started happening around the time that we started using sonar for detecting other ships and submarines. 50 years ago implies during the cold war. The loud sounds can rupture their eardrums or confuse them enough that they beach themselves repeatedly. Also it's a possibility that the cause for the initial beaching hasn't disappeared. Additionally they may only have the physical resources available to save a handful if any
If they didn't want to spend the money they could just leave them there