The main session of the International Whaling Commission opens on Monday with pro-whaling nations pushing to catch more whales despite international opposition that wants to halt or curb the trade.
Yearly Archives: 2005
You can attempt to whale watch in almost all conditions, with varying degrees of success; but fog is not one of them. This was the situation that prevailed for much of the weekend during the IWDG’s first whale-watching course of 2005 on Cape Clear Island
Britain’s biggest fish appears to be moving to Scottish waters – and experts say it may be down to global warming. BBC
A federal judge has ordered the US government to draw up plans to protect North Pacific right whales, thought to have been extinct until they were rediscovered in the Bering Sea three years ago.
Measurement of fresh water entering the Atlantic will help climate predictions. Nature
They survived the dinosaurs, but leatherback turtles may have moved one step closer to extinction when last December’s tsunami washed away some of their most important nesting beaches in India’s Nicobar islands.
South Africa will next week seek to defeat a Japanese proposal to expand whale hunting as it would threaten a growing industry catering to people who enjoy watching the huge mammals, a senior official said.
Australia’s bid to defeat a Japanese plan to expand whale hunting rests with just one or two votes, Environment Minister Ian Campbell said on Thursday after a whirlwind campaign to lobby nations from Europe to the Pacific.
Dolphin mothers in Western Australia teach their daughters how to use a sponge to forage for food, yet another example of how animals learn to use tools, an international team of researchers said on Tuesday.
A large baleen whale has been reported by Jim Corbett on Mon. 6 June, one mile east of Rockabill, off Skerries, Co. Dublin, from a yacht en route from the Isle of Man. The description of a powerful vertical blow which was observed twice from a range of two miles, and the long roll of