Australia stepped up diplomatic efforts to stop Japan from increasing its whale hunt on Friday, saying up to 35 countries were opposed to the plan. PLanet
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Australia, Britain, the United States and New Zealand will protest to the Japanese government over its annual whale hunt, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said on Monday.
Following the publication of the new IWDG/BIM Boat Users Guide to Cetaceans in the Irish Skipper and Inshore Ireland, the IWDG have had an encouraging response from the fishing industry.
Millions of visitors come to Ireland every year looking for the “black stuff” but now, with oil prices above $50 a barrel, an increasing number are exploring for more than just Guinness.
Seven stranded rough-toothed dolphins swam to freedom 14 miles (22 km) offshore in the Florida Straits on Tuesday as rescue volunteers released them back into deep waters after two months of rehabilitation.
A 7.19m male basking shark was seen in Ardmine bay, near Courtown, Co. Wexford on 28th April thrashing in the shallows. Images in strandings section. Locals kept a watchful eye on the shark and at high tide it was approx 10 metres from the rocky shore when a large gash was noticed close to its
Norwegian fishermen harpooned 25 whales in the first week of the country’s much condemned whaling season that this year allows the biggest hunting quota for more than 10 years, a whalers’ spokesman said on Monday.
Sightings of basking sharks and a variety of cetacean species continue with relative ease from west Kerry headlands….
An American palaeontologist and a team of Egyptians have found the most nearly complete fossilised skeleton of the primitive whale Basilosaurus isis in Egypt’s Western Desert, a university spokesman said on Monday.
There have been a number of whale sightings reported to the IWDG from Tory Island, Co. Donegal. The most recent was on 13th April of a large whale, whose description best matches that of a humpback whale. The 1st report on 21st March was of a group of five whales. It was not possible to