Environmentalists link whale beachings to offshore windfarm sonar

Source: The Telegraph

Seismic surveys could be disorientating the whales and driving them to their deaths on the beaches of Fife and Angus, Scotland, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society said. A number of vessels have been carrying out the high-tech scans in the Firth of Forth and North Sea in recent weeks.

Seventeen pilot whales died after a mass beaching in the East Neuk of Fife earlier this month.

A second pod of 24 pilot whales was spotted in shallow water by Cellardyke around the same time but returned to sea without beaching.

The mass beaching occurred just a day after a minke whale was found dead near the Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus.

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