Whale stranding toll soars in Australia
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Marine biologist Dr Rosemary Gales inspects a dead dolphin 29 November 2004 on King Island in Bass Strait off Australia&#39;s south coast where 80 whales and dolphins died after stranding themselves.
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A microscopic fungus native to Australia and blamed for the death of people and animals in British Columbia is now linked to the deaths of porpoises and at least one cat in Washington state.
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A naval exercise off the Australian coast using submarine-hunting sonar could kill whales or cause them to become stranded, the International Whaling Commission warned in a report.
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Fifteen pilot whales died in beach strandings Wednesday in southern New Zealand while rescuers monitored progress of 15 others toward safer waters, conservation officials said.
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People fishing for sport are doing far more damage to US marine fish stocks than anyone thought, accounting for nearly a quarter of the
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Australian scientists predicted four months ago that climate patterns could trigger mass strandings of marine mammals around the Southern Ocean.
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SYDNEY - Humane Society International opened legal proceedings in Australian Federal Courts on Tuesday against a Japanese whaling fleet that it charges has killed more than 400 minke whales within Australia&#39;s whale sanctuary over the past four years.
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By Kathy Marks Asia-Pacific Correspondent  There are fears of an environmental disaster in the unspoilt waters off Antarctica after fire broke out on board a Japanese whaling ship, leaving it adrift near penguin breeding grounds.
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Dozens of whales and dolphins mysteriously beached themselves on an Australian island on Sunday, state government officials said. Some 72 pilot whales and 30 bottle nose dolphins died at Sea Elephant Bay on
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SYDNEY : Rescue teams struggled Monday to prevent a pod of about 20 whales beaching in an area off Australia&#39;s south coast where 80 whales and dolphins died after stranding themselves at the weekend.
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Volunteers worked frantically to save dozens of stranded whales and dolphins in Tasmania yesterday after more than 100 died in mass beachings on two offshore islands.
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Eighty whales and dolphins are dead after beaching themselves on King Island in the Bass Strait, south west of mainland Australia.
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Rescue teams are confident of saving most surviving whales from a pod beached off Tasmania&#39;s east coast - the second mass stranding in Tasmanian waters in 24 hours.
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A MASSIVE rescue operation is under way off the southeast coast of Tasmania after two mysterious strandings of long-finned pilot whales and bottle-nosed dolphins within
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HOBART, Australia  - A total of 80 whales and dolphins died after swimming on to a beach on a southern Australian island where rescue teams Monday were desperately trying to prevent others from becoming stranded, a government official said.
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Australia has vowed to pursue its battle to ban whaling for scientific purposes after Japan cut short this year's whale hunting season in the Antarctic following a fire on its mother ship.
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Twenty adult female sperm whales have been found washed up on a remote Australian beach but wildlife officials on Tuesday were unable to explain the third such mass stranding in the same area in a month.