A whale was washed ashore at the Motagaon coast in Brahmagiri area in Puri district, the third to be found within a fortnight along the Odisha coastline. Recently, two dead whales had been washed ashore, one on the Podampetta coast in Ganjam and another on the Rajnagar coast in Kendrapada districts.
The whale was spotted by locals on Tuesday morning. After getting information forest officials rushed to spot and buried the animal.
Earlier this month, a carcass of a whale measuring 33 feet in length with a diameter of 12 feet was sighted at Podampetta coast in Ganjam district while the carcass of another whale measuring 66 feet in length was found at Chinchiri mouth at Rajnagar in Kendrapada district on February 5.
Following the death of the whales, the State Environment and Forest Department has decided to apprise the Ministry of Forest and Environment (MoEF) of the unusual death of the giant marine mammals.