The Alaska congressional delegation introduced legislation on July 24 that would protect the whaling rights of Alaska’s Native communities. Arctic Sounder
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The IWDG tagged a further 6 basking sharks off Donegal last week as part of a new study of their movements. Following on from our earlier success in West Kerry in June, the IWDG spent three days last week looking for basking sharks around Inishtrahull off the Northern tip of the Inishowen peninsula. As basking
Scientists have spotted a humpback whale off Germany’s Baltic coast for the first time in 30 years, a sighting experts described as a “scientific sensation”. R
KITV-TV in Honolulu said Wednesday that a 2,500-pound Cuvier’s beaked whale was euthanized this week after repeatedly beaching itself on the island of Molokai.
The song of the blue whale, one of the eeriest sounds in the ocean, has mysteriously grown deeper. NY Times
A stranded whale was rescued when about 20 people launched an operation to coax it back out to sea. BBC
The sun shone on Cape Clear Island, West Cork for the 2nd of the three IWDG weekend Whale- Watching summer courses, which was attended by 21 participants, who travelled from as far afield as the UK and Donegal. As always the weekend was a mix of indoor presentations covering a range of related topics, three
A one day training course on cetacean identification and recording will be held on 6th September 2008 and is now open for booking.
People who eat whale meat in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic have high levels of an industrial toxin in their blood in a worrying sign that the pollutant has spread worldwide, scientists said on Thursday.
Despite the poor weather conditions, 2008 is looking like it may well turn out to be a good year for humpback whale sightings in Irish waters. Already this year we have received and validated four sightings of this “endangered” species in Irish waters. This may not sound like many, but it’s four more than we