Australian authorities on alert for more whale strandings
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A search is underway around Maria Island on the east coast of the Australian state of Tasmania to see if there have been any further whale and dolphin strandings.
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More than 120 whales and dolphins died after swimming on to beaches on two southern Australian islands, where rescue teams were yesterday desperately trying to prevent others becoming stranded.
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Anti-whaling nations New Zealand and Australia vowed Thursday to continue the fight to end Japan's annual whale hunts, warning that its plans to kill humpback whales off Antarctica in December could spark outrage. The warning comes just a day after Japan ended its latest southern whale program following a deadly fire that crippled the mother ship of its whaling fleet and left it drifting near the Antarctic coast. A crewman died in the fire.
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More than 100 whales and dolphins have died in two separate beachings in islands off Tasmania in Australia. Ninety-seven pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins died off King Island over the weekend, and several others have died off Maria Island.
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Up to 80 pilot whales and bottle nose dolphins died after a mass stranding on King Island off Tasmania, Australia. The number of dead mammals is lower than that in earlier
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A search is being made around Maria Island on Tasmania&#39;s east coast to see if there have been any further whale and dolphin strandings.
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New Zealand authorities are waiting for crew aboard a crippled Japanese whaling ship to decide whether they need to be towed out of the area, or will remain and continue whaling.
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Environmentalists fear a maritime disaster if a beached coal freighter in eastern Australia breaks up.
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Police will grill the hardcore  activists who docked in Australia on Saturday amid pressure  from Japan for Canberra to take stronger action over recent  anti-whaling protests in icy waters near Antarctica.
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At least 80 whales and dolphins have died after beaching themselves on a remote island between the Australian mainland and the country&#39;s island state of Tasmania.
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Sydney - More than a dozen large sperm whales may have died in a beaching incident on Australia&#39;s southern island state of Tasmania, local wildlife rangers said on Monday.
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Nov. 30, 2004 - Rescuers succeeded Tuesday in saving most of the whales stranded on beaches in Australia and New Zealand in the past days as scientists pinpointed cyclical weather patterns as a likely cause of the increased beachings.
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Researchers are planning the rescue of an endangered right whale first spotted off the Georgia coast earlier this week entangled in fishing gear.
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Carcasses of dead dolphins and pilot whales strewn on a beach on Australia&#39;s King Island, off Tasmania state on Sunday. A total of 80 whales and dolphins died after swimming onto a beach on the island where
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HOBART, AUSTRALIA - More than 120 whales and dolphins have died after beaching themselves in two separate locations off Australia.
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More than 90 whales and dolphins have died in two separate beaching incidents in Tasmania. (Photo: Mavis Burgess)ABC TV. Twenty-one whales beached at Maria Island off Tasmania&#39;s east coast are back at sea and
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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.