Up to 80 whales, dolphins die on Australia&#39;s southeast coast
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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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HOBART, Australia Wildlife officers are trying to save about 50 whales and dolphins near the coast of a southern Australian island.
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Harbour porpoises are being killed in increasing numbers by bottlenose dolphins around British coasts.
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More than 100 whales and dolphins die in two separate beachings in islands off Tasmania in Australia.
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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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Eight people were confirmed dead and at least seven others were still missing after Australia's deadliest bushfires in 20 years swept parts of two southern states.
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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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About 100 whales and dolphins died after beaching on a southern Australian island Sunday, and about 50 more were still at risk, a government official said.
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ANIMAL rights campaigners today claimed Japan has illegally killed hundreds of whales in an Australian sanctuary, and launched legal action aimed at stopping the hunt.
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Japan has dropped its plan to kill humpback whales in Antarctic waters after strong protests led by Australia, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said Friday.
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SYDNEY - Nineteen whales died and 24 were rescued after 43 whales beached themselves on Maria Island off Tasmania&#39;s southeast coast Sunday, the second beaching in Australian waters in 24 hours, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
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The rugged coastline of Tasmania was littered with the carcasses of more than 100 whales and dolphins yesterday after two separate beachings that have baffled scientists.
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ATLANTA, June 13 -- For the second time in less than six months, a whale shark at the Georgia Aquarium, the only facility outside Asia to display the  rare fish, has died.
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Military exercises planned by  Australia and the United States next month off the Australian  coast could result in large-scale whale deaths or injuries, the  International Whaling Commission said.
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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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BRISBANE, Australia - The body of a whale resembling a giant dolphin that washed up on an eastern Australian beach has intrigued local scientists, who agreed Wednesday that it is rare but are not sure just how rare.
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Scientists and National Park Service workers were working Sunday to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 33 of the marine mammals beached themselves between Buxton and Corolla. Seventeen died, including five that were euthanized because they were suffering.