When a white whale carcass washed up at Mallacoota on Victoria's east coast this month, the impact of the whale's death rippled across Indigenous coastal communities nationwide.

An Aussie state has had to enact a tragic “last resort” decision after more than 150 whales were stranded on a remote beach.

An Aussie state has had to enact a tragic “last resort” decision after more than 150 whales were stranded on a remote beach.

After 230 pilot whales were stranded on the western coast of Tasmania, a scramble started almost immediately to save as many as possible.

Two brothers on a nearby boat recorded footage of the breaching whale and then went to help two boaters out of the water.

The whales beached themselves on the Chatham Islands, about 500 miles east of New Zealand's main islands. None of the whales could be refloated and all either died naturally or were euthanized.

A 40FT whale washed up on Morecambe Bay is to be buried at Salt Ayre tip.

Researchers found multiple types of fishing nets, plastic bags and other debris in the stomach of a 60-ton sperm whale.

A massive grave has been dug for a young humpback whale in the dunes near to where it beached at Lennox Head on the northern NSW coast.