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.

IWDG have received news of what is likely to be the 1st of the season’s inshore sighting of fin whales in Cork waters.

The IWDG have received two sightings in the past week of large baleen whales from the east coast.

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.

The Mediterraneo Marine Park in Bahar in-Caghaq has been listed as one of seven cruel destinations by the largest animal rights organisation in the world.

Conservationists in Cornwall are planning to use a hi-tech sonic device in a battle to save the last group of bottlenose dolphins to swim in English waters.

Conservationists in Cornwall are planning to use a hi-tech sonic device in a battle to save the last group of bottlenose dolphins to swim in English waters.

A wave of porpoise deaths in Northern California has puzzled scientists and more of the dead mammals may wash ashore onto beaches in August, animal researchers said on Sunday.