People try to rescue a pod of whales stranded on the shore at Farewell Spit, in Golden Bay, New Zealand January 8, 2026 .Project Jonah New Zealand
Six whales died at Farewell Spit on the South Island coast due to mass stranding, while 15 others remain stranded, the environmental organization Project Jonah reported on Friday.
On Thursday, teams discovered 55 whales were stranded at two locations along Farewell Spit, a 26-kilometer-long sandbar at the northern tip of New Zealand’s South…
