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Japan plans a new group for nations that support commercial whaling in a bid to end a 20-year ban on the activity, officials said, reiterating threats to leave the International Whaling Commission if it didn’t lift the ban.
The endangered Indus river dolphin has dramatically increased in numbers in a small section of the Indus in Pakistan but the animals remain very rare and in grave danger, a scientist said on Wednesday.
The European Commission is today publishing a Green Paper asking citizens how they want to deal with oceans and seas and launching one of the largest consultation exercises in the EU’s history. The Green Paper, called ‘Towards a future Maritime Policy for the Union: A European vision for the oceans and seas’, is a response
The continuing spell of settled weather over the bank holiday weekend has produced a plethora of basking shark, dolphin and even whale sightings from all waters. Noteworthy among them are whales off Dublin and Risso’s dolphins of Wicklow coast. For the 3rd consecutive year whales have been seen in Dublin’s offshore waters around Rockabill and
Australia began a last-ditch attempt to lobby small Pacific Island nations to support whale conservation on Tuesday, warning that every vote at next month’s International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting would be crucial.
There are still places available on the popular IWDG whalewatching courses on beautiful Cape Clear Island this summer. The first of these is being held between 14-16th July.
A seven-metre long humpback whale has been freed by Royal Navy divers from creel fishing lines near Applecross, Wester Ross, Scotland. BBC
The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) have recently learnt that NATO intend to use a range of active sonar systems during their forthcoming training exercise Steadfast Jaguar in the Cape Verde Islands. There has been considerable concern over the impact of Low Frequency Active Sonar (LFAS) on cetaceans from marine mammal experts from around
A number of sightings of Risso’s dolphins in the past week between Wicklow and Greystones suggests their annual inshore movement has begun.