Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995
UK Porpoise Rescue
John Dineley
H94JD@alpha2.luton.ac.uk

Local television news in the east of England has reported that a female porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) has been taken to the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA) Norfolk Wildlife Hospital after stranding in The Wash on the east of England coast.

The hospital, which has a specialist unit for seal rescue and rehabilitation, is currently housing the animal in a large, collapsible tank. The hospital hopes it will be successful in rehabilitating and eventually releasing this animal back to sea.

NOTE

In Holland, the Harderwijk Marine Mammal Park has been successful rehabilitation and releasing a number of cetacean, including porpoises, since the construction of a dedicated standing unit in the late nineteen-eighties.



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