Snorkellers have witnessed basking shark behaviour never before seen anywhere in the world. Up to five basking shark pups have been born to two females during a mass gathering of the world’s second largest fish, off the coast of Cornwall.
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Of 679 whales reported to have been killed during the 2008-2009 whale hunt in Antarctica, 304 were female. Four of the female whales were lactating, and 192 were pregnant at the time of death.
Scientists are warning that a new form of unregulated whaling has emerged along the coastlines of Japan and South Korea, where the commercial sale of whales killed as fisheries “bycatch” is threatening coastal stocks of Minke whales and other protected sp
A combination of very settled weather in June 2009 and a 3rd successive “big” basking shark season have combined to produce a record number of combined cetacean and basking shark sightings reports for June 2009. In the previous 6 years 2003-2008, the mean no. validated sightings is 162, but June 2009 has produced a massive
Conservationists are looking to the United States to help re-establish the authority of the International Whaling Commission after IWC delegates this week failed to reach a deal to regulate global whaling.
The post-mortem of the fin whale stranded in Courtmacsherry Bay in January 2009 will be shown on Channel 4 in a new series starting this week. The programme is entitled “Inside Nature’s Giants” and the four part series covers an Elephant (29 June), Fin whale (6 July), Crocodile (13 July) and Giraffe (20 July). All
During the last two weeks a total of 6 beaked whales stranded on São Miguel Island, Azores. Of these 6 two were dead and 4 stranded alive and returned to the open sea. From the first two animals (the dead ones) we only can get one identification and it was a Cuvier’s Beaked Whale, probably
The global whale watching industry has experienced massive growth over the past decade, according to a report released by the International Fund for Animal Welfare – IFAW.
Norwegian whalers have announced that they have suspended their whale season half way through their usual whaling season after killing around 350 Minke whales, less than 40% of the allotted of 885 whales, saying that demand is saturated, according to a No
The International Whaling Commission failed to find a compromise between whaling and anti-whaling nations on Wednesday in a serious blow to its authority as a regulator. Planet Ark