On the basis of land-based observations by Andrew Malcolm late last week and a good weather window we decided to head east towards the Waterford coast on Friday 17th Oct for a days filming with GMTV for the next “living the Wildlife” series to be shown on RTE. The plan was to locate, film and
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The depleted population of beluga whales that swim off the coast of Alaska’s largest city was listed as endangered on Friday by the federal government. Pla
Whales and dolphins will feature at this years Conamara Sea Week Conference which is entitled The Marine – an area still unknown from 25-27 October at Letterfrack, Co Galway.
A phone call to Kevin Flannery/Dingle Oceanworld on 11th Oct. 2008 alerted IWDG to a stranded whale near Inch Beach, Co. Kerry.
Although this has seemed like a fairly quiet year as far as cetacean spotting is concerned there is obviously still a wide diversity of marine mammal life to be encountered in our inshore waters. Since 13th July and the humpback whale ‘Boomerang’s visit to Ardmore we have seen harbour porpoise, common, bottlenose and Risso’s dolphins
The Supreme Court seemed on Wednesday closely split on whether President George W. Bush can exempt the Navy from federal environmental laws, a case pitting protection of whales against military training exercises.
A bottlenose dolphin live stranded and died in Costello, Co Galway. A post-mortem examination showed the dolphin had been sick for some time and in poor health.
The number of polluted “dead zones” in the world’s oceans is rising fast and coastal fish stocks are more vulnerable to collapse than previously feared, scientists said on Monday.
Report III: 29/09/08 We’ve received reports from local Ardfield farmer, Tim Feen this morning 29/09/08 of at least three fin whales blowing in the same area as yesterday. This morning’s activity is c2 miles Southwest of Sands Cove near Ardfield, Clonakilty Bay and is likely to be of the same whales observed yesterday. Unfortunately the
On Friday 26 September, an exploratory one day trip to the shelf edge west of the Blasket Islands produced an amazing six species of cetaceans in twelve hours.