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.
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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?
The planet’s last river-dwelling finless porpoises are dying in part due to exposure to insecticides and mercury in China, a new study says. Nation
WHALE and dolphin watchers are puzzled and alarmed at an unprecedented spike in the number of deep-water species being stranded and found dead on Irish beaches in the last 14 weeks.
As numbers have risen, there is now serious concern as to what has caused the unprecedented increase in beaked and pilot whale strandings on the Irish and UK coast. The principle species involved are Cuvier’s beaked whales Ziphius cavirostris, pilot whales Globicephala melas and Sowerby’s beaked whales Mesoplodon bidens. Between 1 January and 17 April
Who has “won” the battle between the Japanese whalers and the environmentalists who set out to disrupt their hunt? BBC