Endangered sei whales come to the beaches of Chile to die

There is a confusion on the number of dead sei whales that have beached on the Chile coast in the Gulf of Penas but the fact remains that from 20 to 30 of these whales have been seen by a group of foreign scientists who have informed this to the National Fisheries Service.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 9 May 2015.

The International Union for Conservation of Natures IUCN lists the sei whales as an endangered species and these are banned from being hunted commercially.
Adults of the species can be longer than 50 feet and weigh 20 tons or more and the ones that have been found were in rotting condition when they were discovered – they measured about 33 feet in length.
Incidentally, the sei became endangered when it was heavily hunted after the stocks of blue and fin whales became depleted and, according to WWF, it now has a population of about 12,000.
Beaching of whales along Chile's 2,400-mile coast is not uncommon but, this happens to be the first time sei whales have been found beached here. It seems there is a military base several miles from the fjord where these whales were found.

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