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Ben McKay

'Blue corridors' in mind for Pacific's whale highways

Southern right whales can be spotted in waters off Portland in Victoria. (Bob McPherson/AAP PHOTOS)

Whales are so revered in the Pacific, they have been labelled a 'taonga', or treasure, and afforded legal personhood by Indigenous leaders.

Australian Aboriginal traditions believe whale and dolphin species carry the spirits of ancestors.

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