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NZ: South Korea whaling 'a serious setback'
The decision by South Korea to start whaling is being labelled 'unnecessary' and 'reckless' by New Zealand's whaling commissioner.
Aust fights whaling in international court
Australia is to argue Japan's whaling activities have breached international obligations.
'No alternative' to putting down whales
A decision to kill 48 pilot whales found stranded on Stewart Island had been difficult but there was no alternative, DoC says.
NZ Govt welcomes end to whaling season
Foreign Minister Murray McCully says he welcomes today's announcement by the Japanese Government that its whaling fleet will stop whaling in the Southern Ocean and return home.
Activists confident whaling fleet heading back to Japan
Activists tailing a Japanese whaling ship say it has turned around and is on course for Japan.
Whaling suspension a bluff - Sea Shepherd
Anti-whaling activists say reports of Japan's annual Southern Ocean whale hunt being suspended are a bluff.
Japan suspends Antarctic whale hunt - reports
The Japanese whaling fleet appears to have called an early end to its whaling season in Antarctica, a move which conservationists tentatively say could spell an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Fears whales could restrand
DOC says the longer a refloated pod of whales are in deep water the better the chances they will not restrand
Stranded whale pod reunites after refloating
About 70 pilot whales which became stranded at the top of the South Island have made it to deeper water.
Pilot whales restranded
A group of pilot whales appears to have beached once more on Farewell Spit, at the top of the South Island.
Stranded whales swim off on high tide
A pod of 66 pilot whales beached west of Nelson yesterday swam off on the high tide overnight, DOC says.