Update IV 25/01/2007 The IWDG had a successful day attempting to locate and photograph fin whales off east Cork/west Waterford today. Despite choppy seas this morning a fin whale was located and good images obtained for photo-identification. Padraig Whooley did not recognise the whale as one of the ones photographed off West Cork but a
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IWDG have now received three reports from seperate sites, 24th Jan, of what are most likely fin whales off the Waterford coast. See article below for updates. This augurs well for the week’s research cruises.
The Pentagon on Tuesday exempted the Navy for two years from a law protecting whales so it may continue using military sonar while working on a long-term plan to comply with environmental regulations.
Illegal fishing has depleted global stocks of tuna and governments need to take bold action to save some critically endangered species, the WWF conservation group said on Monday as a conference on the topic opened in Japan.
Illegal fishing has critically depleted global stocks of tuna and some species are at high risk of commercial extinction, environmental group WWF said on Monday.
Melting Arctic sea ice may be attracting more killer whales to Canada’s far northern waters, and that could mean some Inuit hunters will be competing directly with the majestic marine mammals for food, a group of researchers say.
Pirates and licenced trawlers are pillaging the world’s oceans, while proposals on the table for trade ministers meeting in Switzerland next week could prove the final blow to sea life, Greenpeace said on Friday.
Rescuers guided eight distressed dolphins back into open water on Tuesday, a week after several of the animals became stranded in a shallow cove off Long Island, New York.
On 11 January 2007 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Ireland has failed to implement the Habitats Directive with regard to cetaceans. All cetaceans are on Annex IV of the Habitats Directive and entitled to strict protection. Background On 18 October 2002, following complaints, the Commission sent Ireland a letter of formal
President George W. Bush on Friday signed legislation aimed at preventing overfishing in US waters. Planet Ark