By Steven
McKenzieBBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter
7
September 2018
More
whales have been found dead on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland following
several strandings of the animals at the end of last month.
Eleven
whales were found dead over
the course of one week in August.
Whale and
Dolphin Conservation said the toll had now risen to at least 58.
In
Scotland, 20 whales were found beached in the Western Isles, 16 in Argyll and
Bute and two in the Highlands. Twenty have stranded in Ireland.
One of
the whales was found dead in Northern Ireland, and the rest in the Republic of
Ireland.
Many of
the animals that died were Cuvier's and True's beaked whales, which are a
deep-diving species.
Some have
been found dead along the shores of North Uist and Harris in the Western Isles.
Last
month, Whale and Dolphin Conservation asked the UK's Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Scottish government to investigate
the strandings.
The
Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme and Inverness-based Scottish Marine
Animal Strandings Scheme are investigating,
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