Photos: Desperate bid to save pygmy whales
More than 300 people - including DOC staff, locals, schoolchildren, iwi and whale rescue groups - descended on Rarawa Beach in the Far North on November 27 in a bid to save eight survivors of a pod of pygmy whales which had stranded on the opposite coast a day earlier. Photos by Peter de Graaf.
Image 1 of 15: Hundreds of volunteers formed a human chain to discourage the creatures from returning to shore. Photo / Peter de Graaf
