'What is the sea telling us?': Maori tribes fearful over whale strandings | Eleanor Ainge Roy

New Zealand's whale whisperers worry that manmade changes in the ocean are behind the spike in beachingsWhale whisperer Hori Parata was just seven years old when he attended his first mass stranding, a beaching of porpoises in New Zealand's Northland, their cries screeching through the air on the deserted stretch of sand.Seven decades later, Parata, 75, has now overseen more than 500 strandings and is renowned in New Zealand as the leading Maori whale expert, called on by tribes around the country for cultural guidance as marine strandings become increasingly complex and fatal. Continue reading...