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Seven dolphins from a pod of 10 beached on Waiheke Island have been refloated and are swimming back out to sea, the Department of Conservation says. One adult dolphin and a calf died earlier this afternoon after the mass stranding at Whakanewha.
A rescue effort is underway after nearly a dozen dolphins beached in a mass stranding on Waiheke Island, with two stricken mammals already dead.
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