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No-kill researchers sail to study Antarctic whales
Researchers set sail from New Zealand on Tuesday to study whales off Antarctica without killing them - an open challenge to Japan's killing of up to 1,000 whales a year in the name of science. Japan has six-boat whaling ...
- February 4, 2010
Whaling protester to be charged in Japan
An anti-whaling activist from New Zealand is in custody on a Japanese vessel and will be taken to Japan to face charges after secretly boarding the ship as part of a protest, officials said Tuesday. Peter Bethune, a member ...
- February 18, 2010
New Zealand rescue teams save 9 of 58 whales stranded on beach
Crews with bulldozers buried 49 pilot whales in sand dunes on an isolated northern New Zealand beach Sunday after rescuers managed to save only nine from a group that was stranded on the beach for two days. Indigenous Maori ...
- August 23, 2010
Rare dolphin
New Zealand announced plans Friday to restrict fishing in some regions try to save the world's smallest and rarest dolphin from extinction. Experts estimate there are only 55 maui's dolphins remaining. Unique to the South ...
- September 7, 2013