9.8-Meter Sperm Whale Stranded in Ternate, KKP Reveals Condition

Rapid carcass handling is needed to reduce the potential for disruption to beach cleanliness, community comfort, and surrounding environmental conditions.

Collaboration between institutions is also needed because handling large marine mammals requires adequate manpower, equipment, location, and coordination.

Community Reports Accelerate Handling

KKP emphasizes the importance of the role of the community in reporting the occurrence of stranded marine mammals. The information submitted quickly helps officers immediately conduct inspections and determine handling actions.

Community reports should ideally include the location of the discovery, the time of the incident, the condition of the animal, the approximate size, as well as photo or video documentation if possible and safe to do so.

People should also not touch, move, pick up body parts, or swarm too close to stranded marine mammals.

In addition to safety, contact restrictions are required so that the location and condition of the animal's body do not change before the officer identifies it.

The occurrence of stranded marine mammals requires the cooperation of the central government, local governments, technical officers, and coastal communities. The collaboration ensures that handling can be carried out quickly and according to procedures while supporting the monitoring of the health of marine ecosystems.