Hamburg - Three sperm whales have been found washed up on Germany's North Sea coast, a nature reserve official said yesterday.
A spokesman for the National Parks Agency in the northern town of Toenning said the animals were found stranded on the beach by the nearby coastal village of St Peter Ording.
"They are dying. There's nothing we can do to refloat them. We are simply trying to hold people away so that they can die in peace," Mr Helmut Grimm explained.
He said he understood that boats manned by members of the environmental group Greenpeace were trying to ward off two more whales from the beach for fear they might also be stranded.