Wellington: The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under way in New Zealand with the beach closed over fears the bodies will fill with gas and explode as they decompose.
The sands at Farewell Spit where the nearly 700 pilot whales beached in one of the largest mass strandings ever in New Zealand were closed to the public after authorities declared the rotting bodies a health risk. The Department of Conservation said yesterday the carcasses of more than 300 whales were being trucked to an inaccessible location where nature would be allowed to take its course.
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