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Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly has been cast to play a dwarf in Peter Jackson’s two Hobbit movies, which are currently being filmed in New Zealand.
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Santiago -
A lowly fish often used for canning or to make fish-meal and fish-oil to feed higher priced farmed species is causing a serious rift between Peru and Chile, two of the world’s leading capture fisheries countries.
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Louis Ng, director of Animal Concerns Research and Education Society in Singapore (ACRES) recently reported that bears kept on bile farms in China and Vietnam are 'committing suicide' in an attempt to escape their miserable existence.
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Wellington -
Canadian movie producer and director James Cameron is setting up home in New Zealand. The news comes as he finally completes on a troubled property deal in which he purchased two neighbouring farms in Wairarapa, Wellington, North Island, NZ.
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Collingwood -
Thirty-three pilot whales refloated yesterday have stranded themselves again in New Zealand. Having deteriorated significantly, the NZ Dept. of Conservation has chosen to euthanize them.
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Nelson -
New Zealand officials report pilot whales have beached close to Farewell Spit, Golden Bay, in the northern part of New Zealand's South Island. This is the second time pilot whales have beached in this area in a month, and the third time in two months.
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Police in New Zealand raided homes and businesses with links to the founder of Megaupload.com, one of world's biggest Internet file-sharing sites U.S. authorities shut down Friday. U.S. official sources say the site earned $42 million in 2010 alone.
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Bic Runga is playing four dates next month in a mini winery tour. The venue is given below; all you need now is the plane fare to New Zealand.
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Adelaide -
Preliminary tests by Australian vets have not explained why 50 fur seal pups washed up on Eyre Peninsula, SA, all died at the same time. Was it stormy weather, a mass mismothering incident, or an infection? Investigations continue.
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A 3-year-old girl visiting the lion's den at the Wellington Zoo in New Zealand is making headlines after she was caught on video facing off against an angry lion through a pane of safety glass.
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