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On completion of the very successful June and July Whale Watching weekend courses, we still have a few places left on the 3rd and last of our weekend courses on Cape Clear Island on 29-31 August course. This is generally the most productive of the 3 courses in terms of sightings, as encounter rates and

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Afternoon shoppers rushing across the Millennium footbridge in the town centre stopped in their tracks when they noticed a harbour porpoise in the River Bann below them.

An environmental group on Wednesday called on Taiwan’s government to protect one of the most endangered dolphins in the world, a day after a world conservation body listed the animal as “critically endangered”.

This month saw the third survey conducted with the Irish Air Corps under the PReCAST Project. PReCAST surveyors accompany the Maritime Squadron on their routine patrols over Irish Waters.

Bay Area researchers are looking into whether harbor porpoises that have washed up on local beaches in recent months might have been killed by long-term exposure to toxic algae.