A long-deceased adult gray whale washed ashore near Klipsan Beach last week.
Reports are coming in about hundreds of dead birds from Hammerfest in the west to Murmansk in the east. A zone with a radius of five kilometers is closed and guards are in place round-the-clock.
In less than three years, the number of animals on the island of Kolguyev dropped from more than 12,000 to only 153.
Grazing conditions are very poor this winter in Norway as an unusual amount of snow forces the reindeer to dig really deep to find food.
Poaching and climate change might be the reasons why more than 1,200 migrating animals did not make it across the wide Arctic waterway.
Climate change is triggering behavior change among animals across the Arctic. In Northern Siberia wild reindeer this summer started migrating almost a month earlier than normal.
Animal discovered stranded on Tlell beach, marking first recorded sighting north of Vancouver Island
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