7 dolphins dead, over 400 stranded on Tanzania's Pemba Island shores

7 dolphins dead, over 400 stranded on Tanzania's Pemba Island shores

DAR ES SALAAM, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Local residents and marine authorities joined forces to rescue a pod of more than 400 dolphins that became stranded along Vumawimbi Beach on Pemba Island in Tanzania's Zanzibar archipelago, a local official said Friday. Read full story

7 dolphins dead, 400 stranded on Tanzania's Pemba Island shores

Local residents and marine authorities joined forces to rescue a pod of more than 400 dolphins that became stranded along Vumawimbi Beach on Pemba Island in Tanzania's Zanzibar archipelago, a local official said Friday, reported Xinhua. Makame Omar Makame, director of the Marine Conservation Department in Zanzibar's Ministry of Blue Economy and Fisheries, said the rare and alarming incident occurred between the night of June 30 and the early mor…