Rescuers today began moving the 24 survivors of a pod of 80 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a remote northern New Zealand beach to a more sheltered area in an attempt to save them.

Rescuers have managed to refloat 11 beached pilot whales after a mass stranding on an isolated beach in northern New Zealand.

Fifty-eight pilot whales died after they were washed onto an isolated beach in northern New Zealand.