More than 140 pilot whales die in 'heartbreaking' New Zealand stranding
by Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin from on (#43PA8)
A hiker camping in remote Stewart Island alerted authorities to the discovery
More than 140 pilot whales have died on a remote New Zealand beach, the latest in a recent string of whale strandings and deaths in the country.
On Saturday night the Department of Conservation [DoC] was informed of a mass whale stranding in Mason Bay on Stewart Island.
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