Around 1,500 seal pups were swept out to sea and drowned by a tidal surge off Canada’s east coast this week after a lack of ice cover meant their mothers were forced to give birth on a small island, environment officials said on Friday.
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Ten dead Irrawaddy dolphins have been found in Cambodia’s Mekong River, eight of them calves, pushing one of the rarest cetaceans nearer extinction, the environmental group WWF International said on Friday.
A 30ft whale which became stranded in the Humber has died, coastguards said. BBC
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Marine experts are winding down a monitoring operation, after reports a dolphin returned to a Cumbrian harbour from where it had earlier been rescued. BBC
Greenpeace activists will shift their focus to protest against pirate fishing off Africa’s west coast following two months battling Japanese whalers, the group said on Wednesday.
A dolphin has returned to a Cumbrian harbour from where it had to be rescued earlier this week. BBC
A dolphin which had been trapped in Maryport Marina for almost a month has been set free by rescuers. BBC
South Africa has detained an anti-whaling ship and its captain in Cape Town harbour over safety concerns after the Canadian vessel spent weeks harassing Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters.
A whale that made world headlines when it swam up the River Thames into central London last week died of several factors including dehydration, scientists who conducted a post-mortem said on Wednesday.