Watch: Volunteers try to save stranded whales in New Zealand

More than 100 pilot whales that became stranded on a New Zealand beach have died, conservation officials said on Saturday, voicing grave fears for more than 90 others from the pod. The whales beached themselves on Friday at Farewell Spit at the northern tip of the South Island, with dozens of rescuers racing to refloat the marine mammals on the evening high tide. But Department of Conservation (DOC) spokesman Andrew Lamason said the whales had swam aground again overnight after being shepherded out to d
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