Report II: Update 13/05/09, 11:45am We learned this morning from our colleague Joanne O’ Brien, (GMIT & IWDG) who was talking to Eddie Moore a local boat operator who has assisted with deployment of acoustic T-pods in the past, and Eddie reported seeing a pod of Risso’s dolphins yesterday around the Blasket Sound area. This
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You can track the very latest offshore cetacean sightings under the IWDG’s PReCAST project by clicking the “Offshore Survey Daily Reports” icon on the right side of our home page. The latest survey details are as follows: Survey: 2009 Corals ROV Survey Area: Shelf Edge, Porcupine Seabight, Rockall Bank & Biscay Agency: NUI Galway /
Large amounts of fishing gear lost at sea or abandoned by fishers are hurting the marine environment, impacting fish stocks through “ghost fishing” and posing a hazard to ships, according to a new report jointly produced by the UN Food and Agriculture Org
Although the total number of strandings to date is down on previous years, there is a marked increase in more unusual species.
This 3rd IWDG visit to the Cape Verdes to carry out photo-identification on the winter breeding grounds of the Eastern North Atlantic humpback whale population, came courtesy of Crossing the Line Films (CTLF), who are working on a new Irish wildlife series covering the fascinating subject of animal migrations. Other species which will feature are
A preliminary study on Australia’s mysterious snubfin dolphin, only discovered near Townsville as recently as 2005, has given researchers new insight into the mammal’s habits and behaviour; most notably that it uses an extraordinary spitting technique to
A dead whale, identified as a Bryde’s whale, has been recovered by a combined team of Environment Agency- Abu Dhabi (EAD) and Critical National Infrastructure Authority personnel about four nautical miles west of Umm Al Dalkh oil field on Friday 16 April
Two groups of bottlenose dolphins totalling 13 individuals were observed off Loop Head yesterday during monitoring watches. Immediately after conducting an interview with Derek Mooney on RTE Radio 1 on the bottlenose dolphins in Dublin Bay, two groups of dolphins were observed off Loop Head during monthly effort watches by Simon Berrow. One group had
A dead whale, identified as a Bryde’s whale, has been recovered by a combined team of Environment Agency- Abu Dhabi (EAD) and Critical National Infrastructure Authority personnel about four nautical miles west of Umm Al Dalkh oil field on Friday 16 April
BP and Exxon have continued ignoring requests to join consultations with an international scientific panel to work to protect the world’s most endangered whales, threatened by oil and gas development around Sakhalin Island in Far East Russia.