Kevin Rudd has selected Labor mate Sandy Hollway to be Australia’s first whaling envoy, ending a desperate five-month search for someone willing to confront Japan over its whale slaughter.
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A hungry dolphin headed up the Delaware River and into the Schuylkill before a dam near the Philadelphia Art Museum forced it to turn around.
Norwegian whalers have caught five minke off north- western Norway since the whaling season officially opened April 1, reports said Friday.
Kevin Rudd has selected Labor mate Sandy Hollway to be Australia’s first whaling envoy, ending a desperate five-month search for someone willing to confront Japan over its whale slaughter.
A federal plan to protect endangered whales along the East Coast has been caught in interagency warfare and held in limbo by the White House, according to documents made public on Wednesday.
Policy and Recommendations from Cetacean Acoustics, Surveying and Tracking (PReCAST) is a partnership between the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) and the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT). This three-year project (2008-2011) aims to provide robust scientific data to support conservation policy and provide guidance to state agencies in implementing national and international obligations and
Report II: 30/04/08 The latest reports from Kerry observers, Nick Massett and Jill Crosher tell us that basking sharks can now be seen off Slea Head. These are the 1st Kerry basking shark Cetorhinus maximus records of 2008. It is interesting that the county order in which they were reported this year was as follows:
A new study in Boston says whale-watching boats are going too fast near whales, endangering them and disregarding a decade-old pledge to slow down.
The paper “Whale Conservation and Management: A Future for the IWC” outlines a strategy to advance the improvement and modernisation of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
When whales beach themselves, they can die simply from the crushing weight of their own bodies or from overheating due to their blubber, which is needed for insulation in cold ocean waters. What causes these often fatal incidents?