500 pilot whales dead after New Zealand strandings

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 12, 2022 12:15 am

WELLINGTON: About 500 pilot whales have died in mass strandings on New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands, the government said on Tuesday after ruling out a rescue effort in the area's shark-filled waters.

Two 'super pods' of the dolphin-related cetaceans beached on two islands in the remote chain and the survivors were euthanized, according to the country's Department of Conservation.

In this file photo released by New Zealand Department of Conservation, the department's workers clear perished pilot whales after a stranding in Owenga, Chatham Islands, New Zealand, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. Fifty-one pilot whales died Friday in another mass stranding in New Zealand, less than a week after 145 pilot whales and nine pygmy killer whales perished in two other, unrelated stranding. (New Zealand Department of Conservation via AP)

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