The All-Ireland whale watch day, despite poor visibility was a great success, with record numbers joining the IWDG on headlands in each of the provences, for simultaneous watches. Breakdown below.
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South African officials set fire to a 34-tonne whale carcass on Wednesday, sending white smoke into the air near Cape Town as spectators clambered over blubber-strewn rocks for a closer look.
The Irish Ferries high speed ferry ‘Jonathan Swift’ was reported to have struck a soft object, possibly a whale off the Holyhead coast at 2pm today.
Update 9 Analysis of all available images end the debate on the identification of the Larne balaenopterid. It was clear from the post mortem that this was not a fin whale, and all indicators, including the jet black baleen on both sides, were that it was a sei whale. But there was an outside chance
Newly discovered gardens of colorful corals, which bloom about 1,000 feet (305 meters) underwater off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska, will get special protection starting Friday.
South African conservationists are to burn the carcass of a 15-metre (47-foot) whale that washed ashore near Cape Town, officials said on Tuesday. Planet A
The European Union and Mauritania reached agreement on Saturday on a new fisheries partnership that will give EU vessels access to the African nation’s fish stocks for another six years.
A baby seal has been found near a beach south of Lisbon on Friday, after it swam thousands of miles from the north-Atlantic in search for food. Planet Ark<
The dead whale was reported washed up at Baile na hAbhainn, Inverin in Galway Bay by Rory Thynne. After an email to IWDG Galway members, Joanne O’Brien, visited the site to confirm it was a male humpback whale calf. The whale was in good condition with most of its skin intact. At 6.0m long the
On Friday 14 July, a juvenile humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) was spotted breaching in Dingle Bay by Jonathan Smith, a researcher/cameraman with the BBC natural history unit. Jonathan had been watching bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) near Inch strand when he spotted a larger animal further out in the bay. A number of IWDG members went