HALIFAX The latest report from the Nova Scotia-based conservation group the Marine Animal Response Society (MARS) is a look back at incidents involving whales in eastern Canadian waters from 2004 to 2019, and the data shows a troubling trend. According to the report, more than 3,100 cetacean incidents were reported to eastern Canadian response hotlines over the 15-year time span, and 44 per cent of all reported incidents in this region involved an at-risk species. What we ve seen over the past 15 years is that the number of animals that are reported to our hotlines, both live, distressed, and dead animals is going up, says MARS executive director Tonya Wimmer.
Police disperse crowds gathered to catch glimpse of beluga
RCMP have been keeping an eye on crowds gathering to catch a glimpse of a beluga whale in water near the Mount Stewart Bridge.
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RCMP in Mount Stewart were asking whale watchers to spread out on the weekend.(Georgia Potter Fraser)
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Rescuers tried to calm the whale Saturday at Rainbow Haven Beach and ensure it was in deep enough waters.(Andrew Wright)
A baby female pilot whale that was found stranded over the weekend at a beach east of Halifax didn t survive, despite the best efforts of rescuers from a marine animal conservation group.
Tonya Wimmer, the executive director of Marine Animal Response Society, said they got a call around 10 a.m. on Saturday that a whale had been stranded at Rainbow Haven Beach and someone had pushed it back into the water.
Responders swept the area and found the whale on a nearby inaccessible sand bank. Wimmer said it managed to extricate itself from the sand bank and made its way to the back of a salt marsh.
Cattle mutilations found in western U.S. states are often blamed on aliens, cults or secret government tests. Livestock mutilations in Puerto Rico, Central and South America and other places are often blamed on Chupacabras. Neither has been proven and these mutilations generally go unresolved. Now comes a report from Canada of mysterious seal mutilations that don’t seem to have been done by humans or animals. Aliens, eh?
“I was in disbelief … I’ve never seen anything like it. I don’t like to see any animals suffer. I was just really disturbed.”
What Kimberly Hayman told the National Post she saw on a beach on Nova Scotia’s Big Glace Bay was 10 headless seals all with holes in their torsos. The heads were nowhere to be found and the corpses had no odor shades of bloodless goats in Puerto Rico. The shock caused her to pick a different place for her morning walk the following day – unfortunately, her trip to Dominion Bay turned into more of the same horror when she
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A Cape Breton resident has made a disturbing discovery: Almost two dozen decapitated seals dotting the shores of two beaches.
“I was in disbelief … I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Kimberly Hayman, who’s lived in Dominion, Nova Scotia for three years. “I don’t like to see any animals suffer. I was just really disturbed.”
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While on a midday stroll along Big Glace Bay’s shoreline on Sunday, Hayman said she and some friends were startled to find 10 headless seals all with holes in their torsos sprawled along the pebbly beach. There was no odour and the bodies still looked pretty fresh, she said, with dogs curiously running over to investigate.