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Rescuers race to refloat pilot whales from Tasmania stranding

Rescuers release a stranded pilot whale back into the ocean at Macquarie Heads, on the west coast of Tasmania on September 22, 2022 [Glenn Nicholls/AFP]

Australian rescuers have battled to refloat the last surviving pilot whales from a mass stranding that killed nearly 200 of the animals on a beach in remote western Tasmania.

Fewer than 10 of the black mammals were still alive on Friday on Ocean Beach, north of Macquarie Harbour, state wildlife services said.

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