Hundreds of pilot whales washed up on the remote shores of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands in two separate “mass stranding” events that occurred just days apart and deeply “affected” the ...

Two Covid-19 infections were detected over the weekend on Chatham Island, which is located roughly 800km east of New Zealand. The archipelago that shares its name is home to approximately 600 people.

The Chatham Islands in New Zealand, which are surrounded by sharks, have seen 4,000 whales perish on their shores in the past 120 years. Over the past week, two mass pilot whale strandings have ...

According to the country’s Department of Conservation (DOC), officials learned that 80 to 90 pilot whales were stranded on the shore of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands on Thursday night.

About 100 pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins dead in a mass stranding on the remote Chatham Islands, about 800 kilometres off New Zealand's east coast.