Rescue efforts are still underway today to save a group of pilot whales after 25 of them became stranded on the Coromandel Peninsula yesterday.
After they were successfully refloated in Colville Bay late last night, 19 of the whales split from the pod only to die after becoming stranded once more on the rocky headland.
Department of Conversation staff are working alongside locals, medics and Project Jonah volunteers monitoring the remaining few whales who remain close by in the bay.
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