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Whales die on remote Pacific islands
October 13, 2022

New Zealand's conservation office says all 240 pilot whales stranded on remote Pitt Island have died, just days after 215 whales died on a beach on nearby Chatham Island.

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whale and dolphin strandings, Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Credit - Sam Wild
Scores of pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins dead after Chatham Islands stranding
November 25, 2020

More than 100 pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins are dead after being stranded on the Chatham Islands.

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In this image made from aerial video shows numerous stranded whales along the coastline Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, near the remote west coast town of Strahan on the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Credit - Australian Broadcast Corporation via AP
Almost 500 pilot whales stranded in Australia
September 24, 2020

Australian rescuers desperately working to save a pod of almost 300 beached pilot whales discovered hundreds more on Wednesday, bringing the estimated total to now nearly 500. Of those found, 380 have died, making this the largest mass stranding event ever recor

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Beached sperm whale, Eton Beach, Vanuatu. Photo: Lynda Tovo
VT500M warning over dead whale
September 11, 2020

A 17-meter-long and 3-meter-wide adult sperm whale was spotted on Eton Beach last week, its carcass beached, leaving the Chief of the community claiming its remains.

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A Blainsville's beaked whale, photographed in Guam, a US territory in Pacific. CREDIT:ADAM U/NOAA
'Strong association' found between whale strandings and use of naval sonar
February 27, 2020

To the list of humans assaults on our marine environment from giant garbage islands to over-fishing, add one that you can't see: noise pollution.

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