Mass Animal Deaths: January 2013

January 29, 2013

Updated on Jan 31

(Jan 31) Hundreds of birds have been washed-up along the south coast, in as widespread a region as from Cornwall to Sussex, covered in an unidentified “creamy, waxy substance”. (Source)

(Jan 31) Fourteen endangered Borneo pygmy elephants have recently been found dead in a Malaysian forest, presenting a mystery for wildlife officials and conservationists. (Source)

(Jan 30) A LARGE number of fish have been washing up in the Boyne River and South Trees Inlet, in Queensland, Australia. (Source)

(Jan 29) A section of 10km of the Srepok River in the Central Highlands, Vietnam is now covered by dead fish of various species like carp, catfish, red tail hemibargus, etc. (Source)

(Jan 29) Hundreds of dead fish have mysteriously surfaced on a pond in Sir Joseph Banks Park, Botany in New South Wales, Australia. (Source)

(Jan 28) As many as 50 dead seals were found on a beach and in the waters off Prince Edward Island in Canada. Many of seals were pups. (Source)

(Jan 28) A baby female dolphin was found partially buried in the sand on the shore of Mobile Bay in Alabama last week. Scientists are still studying an “unusual mortality event” in the Gulf, which began in February of 2010, a few months before the BP oil spill. Since 2010, 831 dolphins and whales have been found dead in the Gulf, or washed up on shore. (Source)

(Jan 27) Scores of dead fish and animals at Pasir Ris Beach in Singapore, apparently killed by the foamy, off-color water there. (Source)

(Jan 27) A fish kill happened last week along the the Kalalake River in the Philippines. (Source)

(Jan 27) Thousands of Birds killed due to highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in Cambodia. (Source)

(Jan 16) Bird flu (H5N1) has been confirmed at least four places in Pokhara, a sub-metropolitan city in Nepal and thousands of chicken have been culled. (Source)

(Jan 9) More than 25,500 fowl have died from bird flu in Sidenreng Rappang (Sidrap) regency in South Sulawesi, Indonesia over the past month. The number is believed to be increasing. (Source)

(Jan 9) Mexican officials culled almost 300,000 poultry after highly pathogenic H7N3 avian influenza killed 740 birds on one layer farm and the virus was detected on another farm in the area. (Source)

(Jan 27) More 70 horses have died from African horse sickness in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It is not clear when the deadly disease broke out. (Source)

(Jan 25) Sudanese refugees living at the Djabal camp in eastern Chad revealed that 15 donkeys have died in the past month due to a “mysterious disease” while many others are infected with it. (Source)

(Jan 8) Dozens of pigs have died in recent days in a province in the Dominican Republic, of a strange disease. (Source)

(Jan 6) The Government of Kenya is mobilising emergency support to counter rapid spread of peste des petits ruminants, a virulent goats and sheep disease. The disease not only threatens food security, but could also result in a spillover to other regions and neighbouring countries that have never had the disease. (Source)

(Jan 3) Following the outbreaks of cholera and measles which have claimed the lives of more than three hundred children and sickened several thousands in the northern Sindh districts in Pakistan, now the outbreak of one unknown mysterious diseases in the same region has killed more than 360 domestic animals including buffaloes, cows and goats. File Photo (Source)

(Jan 26) Shetland’s biggest salmon producer lost one third of its predicted harvest during the last three months of 2012 due to the impact of a new disease, called Amoebic gill disease (AGD), which only arrived in the islands in Scotland last summer. (Source) (Jan 18) A viral outbreak at NAFC Marine Centre in Scotland has led to the cull of more than 9,000 ballan wrasse, in an effort to contain the infection. (Source)

(Jan 26) Virus wipes out millions of oysters overnight in New South Wales, Australia. (Source)

(Jan 24) TONNES of freshwater fish are being left to die as shallow lakes across Victoria in Australia dry out in the summer heat. (Source)

(Jan 24) Thousands of dead starfish have washed up on a beach in Lincolnshire in the U.K. after a period of stormy weather. (Source)

(Jan 22) A formal investigation was launched Tuesday to determine the cause of death of about 280 sea turtles in the Gulf of Dulce, on the southern Pacific coast, a situation that was denounced by environmentalists, the Costa Rican Environment Ministry said. (Source)

(Jan 21) A dead whale, thought to be a sperm whale, washed up on a Patea beach in New Zealand. (Source)

(Jan 20) A gray whale has turned up dead near Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington State. It was a juvenile female about 28 to 30 feet long. (Source)

(Jan 19) Thousands of ducks owned by residents of Cimaung in West Java, Indonesia have died suddenly. Since the end of December 2012, dozens of ducks die every day. The case is due to virus attack of bird flu (avian influenza / AI). (Source)

(Jan 18) It would seem the animapocalypse in Peru has continued into 2013. Throughout January various animals have been washing up along the shores of Peru’s northern coast. According to the Sea Institute of Peru 12 dolphins, 35 sea lions, and 13 pelicans have been found dead along the shores of San Jose, Lambayeque. It appears that many of the dolphins found had died several weeks prior to their discovery, but the government says it have confirmed all the animals died from natural causes. The pelicans specifically, appeared to have died from starvation, as the anchovy population has dropped significantly due to the increase in water temperature. In 2012, the Peruvian government also claimed “natural causes” were responsible for the deaths of about 900 dolphins that had washed up on its shores. In May, Peruvian authorities said warm waters off its coast were to blame for the deaths of more than 5,000 marine birds. File Photo (Source)

(Jan 18) Tens of thousands of dead fish washed ashore on a South Carolina beach on Tuesday, for at least the second time in a week. Approximately 30,000 to 40,000 menhaden fish washed ashore along a mile-and-a-half-long stretch of beach from Georgetown County, S.C., to Pawleys Island. (Source) Last year, an influx of Star Fish were found on the same beaches. (Source)

(Jan 16) Red tide is being blamed for a fish kill on parts of the Anna Maria shoreline in Florida, but there is no official confirmation of the cause. (Source) Wildlife officials are investigating after an estimated 2,000 dead fish have turned up in one Grand Island lake in Louisiana. (Source)

(Jan 15) THE RESULTS of a post mortem examination are being awaited to establish what caused the deaths of three seals found washed up on Duncannon Beach in Ireland. (Source)

(Jan 11) Hundreds of thousands of dead fish have been reported this week at Masonboro Island in North Carolina. (Source)

(Jan 11) Thousands of dead birds, mainly loons, washed ashore — from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan, down to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. (Source)

(Jan 10) Sea turtles are being found stranded on Virginia beaches in unusually high numbers after hitting a sudden patch of cold water that leaves them stunned or comatose, according to local experts. (Source)

(Jan 10) The coldest winter in decades is causing blizzards in northern China and about 180,000 cattle have died. (Source)

(Jan 10) Tons of grouper and other fish in Lampung Bay in Indonesia have died since December last year. The deaths were allegedly caused by a red algae boom over the past two weeks that occurred after waste was dumped into the sea. (Source)

(Jan 9) The discovery of a dead newborn killer whale calf has reinforced the perilous state of the marine predator in the shared Salish Sea of B.C. and Washington State. (Source)

(Jan 9) Two dead whales were found on the Capricorn Coast in Queensland, Australia. One of the animals was a full-sized, 18-metre-long sperm whale. The other was a smaller, as yet been unidentified. (Source)

(Jan 7) A MYSTERIOUS virus or natural event has baffled residents of an Angus town in Scotland, after a number of seabirds were found washed up on their shore. (Source)

(Jan 7) 50 baby hammerhead sharks were found dead along the Nukulau beachfront in Fiji over the weekend. (Source)

(Jan 6) Jumbo squid have invaded the Southern California waters and are being caught by sport fishermen by the hundreds. File Photo (Source)

(Jan 4) The rotting carcasses of dead fish, most of them snapper, are littering beaches from the top of the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand for about a 10km stretch. (Source)

(Jan 4) Altus-Lugert Lake is the latest body of water in southwest Oklahoma where fish are dying as a result of golden alga blooms. The fish kill started the week before Christmas and became worse last week with several thousand fish dying in the lake. (Source)

(Jan 4) The nesting season for Olive Ridley turtles between Neelankarai and Napier Bridge in India has started on a tragic note. At least 30 dead turtles have been washed ashore in the past fortnight. (Source)

(Jan 3) Lots of dead fish have been coagulating around the Boca Grande Causeway in Florida. (Source)

(Jan 4) Thousands of dead sardines have been washing up at Nerito Beach on Sanibel Island in Florida due to the Red Tide. (Source)

(Jan 4) With a cold front moving in during the New Year’s holidays, fish farmers in Changhua and Yunlin counties’ coastal areas reported the estimated loss of thousands of milkfish. (Source)

(Jan 3) The Phra Prong River in Prachin Buri, Thailand was clean until eight years ago, when residents say factories began to pollute the water, killing huge numbers of fish, causing large fish kills two or three times a year. (Source)

(Jan 3) 7-feet long dolphin, weighing 150 kg, was found dead on the shore of river Bakra originating from Nepal in Bihar’s Araria district. (Source)

(Jan 1) Residents in Seymour, Tennessee were startled after seeing dozens of small birds dropping dead from the sky over the weekend. As many as an estimated 300 dead birds appeared to be mostly starlings. (Source)

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