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Dead pilot whales at Macquarie Harbour on September 24 2020 in Strahan, Australia. Rescuers are working to save hundreds of stranded whales on Tasmania’s west coast. Efforts to save some 270 pilot whales beached on a sandbar started on Monday September 21.Image: GETTY IMAGES/ STEVE BELL
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Australia plans to dispose of hundreds of whale carcasses

Australian officials were planning the grim task of disposing of almost 400 whale carcasses on Thursday as hopes faded there would be many more survivors of one of the world’s biggest mass strandings of the mammals. Rescuers had managed…

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