Japan’s Antarctic fleet has resumed whaling after anti-hunt activists suspended their pursuit of the vessels in the Southern Ocean to refuel. BBC
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Hardline anti-whaling activists said on Thursday they would return to harass Japan’s whaling fleet for another three weeks after departing Antarctic waters to refuel in Australia unless they were blocked by police.
Environmental group Greenpeace said on Saturday its anti-whaling ship, which has been harassing Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, had saved an estimated 100 whales but was running low on fuel and would return to port.
Seeing the river dolphins of Bangladesh is not something that is easily forgotten. They rise arc-like and majestic out of the water only inches from boats that ply the rivers of the country’s south.
Japanese whaling ships have been warned not to enter New Zealand’s Antarctic waters by Prime Minister Helen Clark. BBC
Attempts to save a 40ft minke whale which became trapped in a harbour entrance in Fife have failed. BBC
A dolphin that was washed ashore in Dorset tangled in fishing rope has been rescued by a sailor who swam with the creature to guide it back out to sea.
More pressure is being put on the European Commission (EC) to take action to reduce the number of dolphin deaths off Devon and Cornwall’s coastline. BBC
Two anti-whaling activists held on a Japanese whaling ship have been handed over to an Australian fisheries patrol ship in the Southern Ocean, their group said on Friday.
A dead whale which stranded at Bere Island, Co. Cork in Sunday 13th January 2008 has been positively identified as a fin whale Balaenoptera physalus. IWDG stranding co-ordinator, Mick O’Connell visited the site yesterday (15 January) and confirmed its species from its unique asymmetric baleen colouring.We can also confirm it to be a 13m female.