Researchers were surprised this week by the sudden appearance — and quick disappearance — of two rare Northern right whales in the busy industrial port of Corpus Christi Bay.

Ireland, Australia, Britain, Brazil, France and Germany were among 17 countries which this week called on Japan to halt to its Antarctic whaling programme.

Twenty-one dead dolphins have been washed up along the coast of Cornwall over the past four days. BBC

A Japanese whaling harpoon narrowly missed an inflatable boat carrying environmental protesters, causing one to fall into the freezing sea, as both sides warn their face-off is becoming increasingly dangerous.

Cans of lager are among the items which have been thrown at a dolphin delighting crowds of people in a Cumbrian town. BBC

New Zealand sailed into an escalating row between Japan’s whaling fleet and environmental activists on Thursday calling for international pressure on Tokyo to stop the practice.

Clashes at sea with two environmental groups will not bring Japan’s whaling programme to a halt but could reduce the size of the catch, a senior official at the Fisheries Ministry said on Thursday.

Have there been any recent sightings at an effort watch site near you ? The IWDG database now contains a total of 1754 watches carried out from 93 sites distributed throughout the island of Ireland. The total number of hours watched now exceeds 2689. Watch sites are presented both as a map and a table

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This morning the Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise was deliberately rammed and damaged by the Nisshin Maru, the factory ship of the Japanese whaling fleet.

Protected ocean areas are needed to save deep-sea fish which have been driven to near extinction by commercial fishing, scientists said on Wednesday. Plane