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More than 40 Department of Conservation staff and volunteers are working to save a group of pilot whales on Stewart Island.
In the past 24 hours around 70 whales have been stranded on Maori Beach.
21 of the stranded whales have died.
DoC Area manager, Greg Lind says they have managed to chase the pod 8 kilometres out to sea but he believes they are heading back in.
He says his staff may have to shoot the whales because he says the mammals are too stressed to survive another stranding.
- IRN
Whales stranded on Stewart Island
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