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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2022
- Will these whales make it?
Farewell Spit, in New Zealand, is a narrow sand pit that is known as the 'whale trap'. In 2017, hundreds of whales found themselves beached on this very shore, in need of urgent rescuing. We speak to the one of the volunteers who was on a mission to help bring these majestic creatures to safety.
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Can't appreciate the efforts of these enthusiasts in words, just very grateful to watch their will to help those vulnerable animals.🙌
🐳 Thank you. It was a huge community effort to get these animals back out to sea.
This is what we humans can do if we all come together.
Many many thanks for all the people who have helped and rescued the whales.
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Thank you BBC for helping us to tell this story. Whale strandings are extremely complex, exhausting events. It is only with the assistance of local communities, our volunteer Marine Mammal Medics and many others that we are able to care for these whales and give them the chance of a second chance at life. If you'd like to support our work or find out more, please visit out website 💙💙💙
Then again, I know im in the minority here, but whale strandings are apart of nature, the orcas have no natural predator and nature has to keep them under control some way, that's why i believe beach strandings happen.
I'm so grateful to all those people who helped the whales! It was so heartwarming to see how present, loving and dedicated they were in their efforts to keep them alive and help them swim off again. And I'm so glad that many whales made it. ❤
This is very sad to watch but greatly thankful to these people who work hard to take care and save them. You are the unsung heroes!
💙💙💙 Thank you, huge community effort
All those who volunteered have beautiful rich hearts.
I wish I would have been there to help!
It is such a heartwarming story that brought me close to tears.
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wow that's so incredible! a community to come to together and save the mammals. I would help in a heart beat if I was closer. amazing hearts and show humanity is not dead. keep helping and being the whales chance to live. I'm proud of every single one of you! thank you!
Wow. What a story. Makes me think humans may not be so bad. Really amazing. I love this woman.
Whales are such amazing, sacred beings. The elephants of the seas. Their Compassion and Empathy for one another and their Intelligence triumphs over humans. It is vital that these wonderful beings are protected at all cost.
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Amazing. Huge thanks to all of you who stood in the surf and kept these wonderful creatures alive.
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This organisation do an incredible job. I was in New Zealand for a few years and heard countless stories of them coming to the rescue in my time there. If I do return to live there in the future I’ll be immediately signing up to their training programme
So many wondaful compassionate people came together to help these whales.
God bless these heroes and the whales. Loving Kindness and Compassion to all living beings is the reason we were put here on our planet. 💜💚❤️🙏🙏
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I only wish the news was full of human compassion and caring like this. Great story
These poor whales thank you so much for doing all you can ♥️♥️♥️
These stranded beautiful Pilot Whales would have died Without the wonderful community and hundreds of volunteers and strangers alike, all coming together to save these magnificent animals, giving up their time and dedication, and most importantly all coming together and working as a team to help the whales return to sea. To witness 200 whales swim into the bay and guild the stranded whales back into the ocean is phenomenal. Thankuou for sharing this amazing footage.
The greatest story that I ever heard. Basically orcas came back to retrieve own companions
What an amazing experience thank you all for saving so many ❤
This is just soo beautiful! I cried at first seeing all these poor orcas stranded! Then cried afterwards to see that their brothers & sisters came to their rescue! 🐋 ❤😊
Pilot whales, not orcas
orcas rarely strand and live in much smaller pods! it’s mainly pilot whales (they are not very good pilots) that strand in new zealand!!!
What a wonderful thing, everyone grouping together to save these whales.
Beautiful job Kiwi people. Lots of blessing, respect and love from US. 🇺🇸✌️
Autistic with asbergers here always love watching the short clips of humanity coming to help wild animals always makes me feel emotions of sorrow and happiness which generally is lacking in my life thank you.
E tão admirável as pessoas envolverem-se neste salvamento ...fico tão feliz quando se salvam estes imponentes animais!!! Uma tarefa dantesca e que acabou com um final feliz!! Maravilha...e um grande obrigado!!
I appreciate them who helped the poor whales.They are not only the real friends of animals but also the great people.
the fact there wasnt anymore whales trapped.. WOW insane.
I hope many were able to be saved, bless.
Thas is a bad thing to see whales passing away, but thanks for all of volunteers and honest people. I wish I resided where is close to the ocean. I would definitely take park in this kind of occasion but I am from Uzbekistan which is located in Asia.
You are All Heroes
Hats off to all of you guys.
Thank you all and much love for helping ❣️❣️❣️
Only a human chain of willing humans can save this planet and we need so many chains on different levels. Grateful to all these amazing humans truly grateful🙏
Thank you for your team work.!
Thank you all beautiful people
So sad. Thanks to all the volunteers helping these whales.
It happens every year, I wonder why the Whales don’t use their instincts and not go to that area.
Extraordinary display of cooperation and Kindness and respect and love. 💕 🐳 Thank you for doing what you did, Project Jonah.
What a great work couldn't be better than this.
Awesome story. Sounds like there are a lot of great people in your community. Thank you for being you!! :))
Beautiful effort ❤
Absolutely amazing!
Maybe they can work with using sonar that could push the whales back when they are spotted coming in. Using sound that irritates them so that they move away from the area could possibly be one way of controlling their movement into this death trap.
Beautiful whales, thank God to these people who cares about whales. I love 🐋
Thank you, whale rescue team!
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God bless you all
Incredible 🙏🏼
Hatts off
Is this "Whale trap" still there? Sorry if that is an uneducated question.
I think it's remarkable what all the volunteers came together to help rescue these amazing creatures back to safety. Everything works in divine timing.
Yes, unfortunately New Zealand has a few areas with whale and dolphin strandings like this. I don’t think there’s much that can be done as it’s a huge area of land which comes out
Good for you, refreshing!
This reminds me of set book we did in high school called the Whale rider, the author was from New Zealand. He had written of such an incident.
Amos a los animales y les doy las gracias, mil gracias a todos por el enorme esfuerzo de cuidar a estos hermosos ejemplares. Dios les bendiga por esta grandiosa labor!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😃🙏🙏🙏👍🇲🇽
I wish there was a way to change the topography so it wasn't so dangerous, to erect a barricade of sorts to redirect the pods, but I understand that is impossible. Thank goodness for the kindness of this community to understand the (flaw?) in nature here and be willing to mobilize to intercede for the benefit of the pod members. It's a never-ending task.
Farewell spit is very very long, that would be very impractical
@@627hjc Yea. I get it. I was just saying like "in a perfect circumstance". The reality is, the pods have a problem. I wonder if maybe scientists could install electronic devices along the inlet to discourage them wanting to come into that area??? Like emitting sounds...hmmm.
😪😪😪... is there no way some kind of buoy that emits sound or vibration could be installed in the bay that would keep them from coming in?
This is what I was wondering. Hopefully we learn the language well enough to record a warning/ distress signal that says keep away and it could be used to play through an underwater sound system.
Deterrents like bubble nets have been tried but these are incredibly smart animals.
@@ProjectJonahNZInc Not smart enough to beat the tide. ;)
@@ProjectJonahNZInc I do wonder how smart it is of us though to interfere with nature. Nature has a way of balancing itself out. When humans get in the way, all we seem to do is fail. I mean, we're killing mother earth at an alarming rate due to capitalism, so. Just how wise of us, is it to "save" what nature has chosen to take? Sick how we've decided to enact Genocide of our own, then attempt to save animals we feel should be saved. I'm not so sure humans know best. In fact, I know we don't. We've done nothing but made a huge mess of it all. If not for us, the earth and animals would thrive. We are the failure. Nature knows what it's doing.
Amazing people doing amazing things.
You are hero madam I adore you saving whale 🐋 ❤
A massive community response 💙💙💙
Why do so many Whales stranded and dieing ? thats so sad....
❤Thanks to the people try to help them, its a huch work 💪
Like they said in the water, some whales didn't know that the water is going down when the tide go down so they end up being stranded
I know wy Whales stranded but i always think why oh why
The most plausible reason is the military ships n subs using sonar that pinging sound is enough to damage the ear drums a very painful thing to endure so they beach themselves, of course the military always are in DENIAL
We 💜 New Zealand and whales.
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Amazing work
Thank you thank you thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for saving the whales ❤
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🙏👍🇨🇦thank you so much
Nice video 📹 wildlife 🥰🥰🥰🥰
So wonderful 👍🙏🙏❤️🤩😍
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An immediate rescue could be adopted for short term, aerial arrangement where a water pooled holder carrying the whale swiftly dropped in deep water by a special helicopter which is designed not for altitude but for weight.
But for the long run , to prevent it from happening it would be their behavior, what sounds alerts them and they change their track of movement would be the best to use during the period of their journey. But , what kind of mechanism is it that people are calling the state itself is not responsible for keeping checks for them as it had been their habitat these majestic creatures have obviously huge territorial habitat requirements.
Heroes. Sheer heroes.
maybe putting a wire mesh across the whole thing only allowing smaller marine life to filter through woul be a good idea? if you can safely build something that far across
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Spring and autumn are too short.
I wish you good health and good things on weekends and holidays.
Thank you very much.
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The pilot 🐳 are so grateful as am I, thanks,thanks, thanks….
Awwwwww please do still, this is my crush animal
This was educational . entertaining and quite moving. Better than the Thumbnail suggests. Really GOOD.🙂🐬
I hope so .
Great to save whales
amazing event and man those dusk shots are beautiful
I like this team work very much.
Respect 👍
Need come up with a solution to prevent them stranding, maybe a call/warning they are familiar with. Combination of human interaction with them and increased predators will make events like this more costly for the whales and more common.
Believe it or not, human actions rub off on intelligent species, the more creatures they see on land the more curious they will be about land... and curiosity kills the cat.
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Heart rending for them & the volunteers; you all. Sad but so wonderful that you can save them. It is odd that they do not actually remain aware of this dangerous piece of coast and warn each other, somehow [just like the innate immigration or hunting routes]?
I would think that someone should try to come up with a plan to keep the whales out of that area. Some kind of fence or wall made out of rock perhaps. Then those whales wouldn't be trapped in that cove. Just an idea. God bless.
Hi Deborah, Farwell Spit is a big sandspit over 30kms in length (and being a natural phenomena it grows and shrinks year on year). It's also an internationally renown migratory bird sanctuary along with a number of other functions. We have tried a number of deterrents such as bubble nets, playing orca (predator) calls and pingers. While these have had limited success, they are often ignored by the whales after a day or two.
Angels
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Thank you all for being good humans. It gives me hope
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But How? How don’t They know it’s unsafe for them to swim tho the beach?
put up some sort of solar powered sonar warning system maybe? Try to block them from getting near the danger zone?
A number of different deterrents and alert systems have been tried and we continue to look for more options to try in the future
Whale done.
😊 WoW! I was looking for this comment! 😂 definitely funny!
can anyone tell me why they came out of water?
As intelligent as whales are, it is really curious why they beach themselves, and in this case, why do it again? I wonder if we will ever know and understand. Thankfully, more and more people like these care enough to help when they can.
WHALES ARE THE COOLEST. These humans are a close 2nd though.
There has to be a bigger solution here.
i feel sorry for the pilot whales🥺🥺
Amazing video..
Very nice
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omg im glad the whales made ittt!!!!😆😆
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And this, gives me hope for the human race
Gruß Jürgen 🤠👍
Poor Orcas 😿😿
Not orcas, they are Pilot whales
He's right, they're too small to be orcas, these are pilot whales, both are blackfish, which are small whales belonging to the family Orcinidae, blackfish (family Orcinidae) are the only toothed whales (suborder Odontoceti) to retain their macroraptorial lifestyle from their ancestors, as these whales are known to target prey larger than themselves, with orcas being predators to other marine amniotes, while other blackfish species would only prey on large-sized fish, there are six living blackfish species within five genera, the Melon-Headed Whale (Peponocephala electra), the Long-Finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala melas), the Short-Finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus), the Orca (Orcinus orca), the Pygmy Killer Whale (Feresa attenuata), and the False Killer Whale (Pseudorca crassidens).
@@indyreno2933 shes says they are pilot whales in the video too
I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to the one you replied to.
@@indyreno2933 I, I know that. I'm just saying the video made it clear what they were too.
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Wow
But would the whales do the same?