A marine conservation group is appalled by the mutilation of a rare sperm whale carcass that washed up on a beach on the New South Wales Far North Coast.
A trophy hunter is suspected of hacking off the lower jaw of a rare sperm whale after the animal's carcass was found mutilated on a beach on the New South Wales Far North Coast.Someone has cut away part of the whale's distinctive lower jawThe 16.9-metre-long mammal was found on Patchs Beach, south of Ballina, on Friday.
"If I was the person who took part of that whale's jaw, I would be returning it under the cover of night."Ms Farrell said there was a lucrative but illegal trade in items such as sperm whale teeth."I'm sure whoever took these teeth is going to try to get rid of them on the black market.Sperm whales are rarely seen near the NSW north coast.
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