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About 500 pilot whales have died in mass strandings on New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands, the government said Tuesday after ruling out a rescue effort in the area's shark-filled waters.
Hundreds of pilot whales have died after becoming stranded near the shark-infested waters of a remote island chain in the South Pacific, according to rescue teams and conservationists.
No attempts made to refloat the beached whales due to danger of shark attacks and so few people on islands.
Two "super pods" of the dolphin-related cetaceans beached on two islands in the remote chain and survivors were euthanized, according to the Department of Conservation.
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