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Six stranded whales are returned to the ocean in New Zealand

Conservation workers and volunteers in New Zealand managed to refloat six surviving stranded whales on Tuesday and were hoping the animals would soon swim away into deeper water.

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145 pilot whales stranded on remote New Zealand beach die

A hiker discovered the pilot whales in two pods about 2 kilometres apart late Saturday on Stewart Island.

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Dead whale found with 16kg of plastic in stomach

A dead whale found with plastic garbage in stomach was buried at an Indonesian beach

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Giant 'corpse flower' blooms at Indonesia farm

An Indonesian farmer was startled to discover a rare "corpse flower" blooming in his plantation on the island of Sumatra.

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Pandas excited by first snow this autumn in northeast China

Two pandas frolicked in their snow-covered enclosure as the first snow this autumn enveloped the Yabuli Ski Resort in Harbin, in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on Saturday.

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Watch: Giant spider web envelops coastline of Greek lake

Spiders have been keeping busy at Lake Vistonida in north-eastern Greece. Over the last few days large webs, spreading for hundreds of meters across the lake's coastline, have blanketed the entire landscape. The trees and shrubs have been completely wrapped in spooky grey webs.

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Girl rescues shark stranded off Rhode Island coast

A girl picked up a stranded shark with her bare hands and released it back into the ocean at Block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island.

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Whale watchers have close encounter with feeding humpback whales

Passengers on board a whale watching boat were treated to a close encounter with a pod of humpback whales in Monterey Bay on July 13.

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Diver and shark enthusiast skilfully removes hook from shark jaw

A Florida-based British marine biologist, Leigh Cobb, managed to dislodge a hook from the jaw of an endangered oceanic white tip shark in astonishing feet captured on video.

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Plastic chokes Vietnam's shoreline

There's almost more plastic than sand on this long, tree-lined beach: Plastic helmets, furniture and the plastic leg of a shop mannequin all stand out of an ocean of blue plastic bags.

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Saving the urban bees in Berlin

This is the Berlin Cathedral, one of the most iconic buildings in the German capital.

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Berlin responds to crayfish plague: If you can't beat them, eat them

North American crayfish that spilled en masse into Berlin's parks last summer will soon be appearing in the city's restaurants after its government authorised fishermen to remove them from public ponds.

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Rare Pallas cats debut at Chester Zoo

Four rare felines, known as the "world's fluffiest cats" have a new home at Chester Zoo, in the north of England.

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Australian state launches Koala protection initiative

Australia's New South Wales state government announced that thousands of hectares of land would be set aside as part of measures to protect koalas from being wiped out.

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Take a look around Patagonia's biggest penguin colony

Take a look around the largest Magellanic penguin colony in Patagonia, Argentina.

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Reindeer herd in Sweden starts moving uphill for the summer

It has been a long winter with lots of snow. The reindeer herd are now, towards the end of April, ready to move uphill, to their summer pasture.

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Five penguins go back into the wild in Australia

Penguins recover after zoo treatment to return home.

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Butterflies flutter at the Natural History Museum in London

London's Natural History museum has come alive with an estimated 60 species of butterflies from the Americas, Asia and Africa as "Sensational Butterflies" returns for 2018.

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Fluttering butterflies take over San Diego Zoo

Thousands of butterflies floated and fluttered around an aviary at the San Diego Zoo on Friday March 9th For the opening of the zoo's annual butterfly jungle.

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Two Iberian lynx released in Portugal

The Portuguese Forestry and Nature Conservation Institute (ICNF) released on Friday two Iberian Lynx, in Guadiana Valley Natural Park, Serpa.