A month after the 1st humpback record of 2008 from Malin Hd, IWDG receive the 1st south coast record from the Irish Naval Service (Updated 20/6/08).
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Animal welfare campaigners say Greenland’s whaling, held under rules permitting subsistence hunting, has become too commercial in character. BBC
During the period IWDG received 54 marine megafauna sightings from 7 counties, all of which have been validated and are now available on www.iwdg.ie. These break down as follows: Kerry (33%), Cork (26%), Antrim (13%), Donegal (9.2%), Mayo (5%), Waterford & Down (3.7%), and Wexford (1.8%) The big news is that basking shark sightings seem
During the period IWDG received 54 marine megafauna sightings from 7 counties, all of which have been validated and are now available on www.iwdg.ie. These break down as follows: Kerry (33%), Cork (26%), Antrim (13%), Donegal (9.2%), Mayo (5%), Waterford & Down (3.7%), and Wexford (1.8%) The big news is that basking shark sightings seem
As the bodies of 26 common dolphins were recovered from the Cornish coastline last week, marine mammal experts and conservationists struggled to understand the incident.
Some 55 dolphins have died, after coming ashore on a beach in the northwest of Madagascar, conservationists said on Monday. Planet Ark
The first whale meat sent to Japan in more than a decade by North Atlantic hunters Iceland and Norway is stuck in cold storage without an import licence, officials said on Friday.
The IWDG sucessfully tagged two basking sharks off Slea Head, Co Kerry. This pilot study will provide knowledge and experience of basking shark tagging and hopefully provide some indication of movements and site fidelity in Irish waters. In 1993, Dr Simon Berrow received funding from the EU Fisheries Department to learn more about the elusive
During the bank holiday weekend period IWDG received many marine megafauna sightings from the public, totalling 96, from 11 counties. These break down as follows: Kerry (31), Cork (22), Mayo (10), Antrim & Galway (6), Sligo (5), Down (4), Donegal (3), Waterford (2) and one each from Dublin and Clare. As you’ve probably guessed by
The past few days has seen an exceptional run of Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus records in counties Derry, Antrim and Down. The first sighting of a group of c12 was in Portrush , Co. Antrim on Friday 30th May with possibly the same group spotted by surfers at Portstewart and later at Portballintrae. Finally on