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Again it is the Farewell Spit in New Zealand, where several pilot whales ran aground within one day. Volunteers formed a human chain to drive the whales into deeper water. More than 20 pilot whales have been returned to deeper waters after a second stranding off New Zealand. “The whales are currently swimming freely off the coast and are monitored by a boat from the nature conservation authority,” said the organization Project Jonah on Tuesday. Source: AFP / HANDOUT On Monday, February 22nd, around 50 animals were stranded on the Farewell Spit headland. Many of them died, but about 2...

From our campaigner friends at Animals Australia. People power stops new live export business in its tracks A plan to begin exporting live animals from Namibia to Kuwait has been quashed thanks to a united, global effort drawing attention to the suffering caused by the trade. The idea that when one door closes another opens, is mostly reassuring. But when it comes to the global live export trade, this universal truth is the reason we need to remain ever vigilant. You see, as countries have become clued-up to the cruelty inherent to live export — and widespread opposition to it —  live ex...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Volunteers in New Zealand were optimistic they could save the 28 whales that remain from a mass-stranding after refloating the...

DoC will check the beach at first light in the morning to see whether any have re-stranded.

Wellington, February 23 More than a dozen pilot whales have died and many others remain stranded near a narrow sand spit at the northern tip of New Zealand's South Island despite efforts to move them