Whale watchers gathered on the banks of the Delaware River on Thursday hoping to catch a rare glimpse of a beluga whale, thousands of miles from its Arctic home.
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English police are hunting the killers of porpoises that were shot and battered to death in a spate of attacks along the coast of northeast England. Times UK
Japan is set to expand its annual whale hunt to take two new species as well as nearly doubling its planned catch of minke whales, media reports said on Tuesday, a move virtually certain to spark global fury if true.
On April 12th 2005 at 9.00 AM Dr Chris Smeenk, curator of mammals, got a phone call that a large whale was found stranded at Ameland. This is one of the Dutch Wadden Islands in the north of the country.
The first INJ prize is to be awarded to IWDG members Conor Ryan and Peter Wilson for their paper “Observations on the behaviour of killer whales that visited Cork harbour in 2001”. The prize giving on 13 April will be followed by a lecture by Dr Simon Be
It’s great to be able report some cetacean activity within a stone throw of the nation’s capital. Today, 10th April, we received several reports from IWDG commitee members of large numbers of harbour porpoises in a number of Dublin locations.
Sakhalin Energy, a Shell-led liquefied natural gas project on Russia’s Pacific coast, said on Wednesday it would reroute offshore pipelines to help protect an endangered species of grey whale.
Nick Masset reported a single basking shark in Ventry Harbour, Co. Kerry, on 29 March, while on 30 March “effort” whale- watches from both Ram Head, Ardmore, Co. Waterford and Galley Head, Co. Cork also produced single basking sharks. The bad news is that this period is historically considered to be the “low season” for
An “effort” watch this morning off Whitehead, Co. Antrim by Ian Enlander, EHS, produced the 1st confirmed basking shark of the year, as one was observed over a 2-3 minute period travelling east. Interestingly, the 1st record of this species last year was
Canada said on Tuesday it would allow 320,000 young seals to be killed this year and launched an unusually strong attack on activists who promise to boycott Canadian seafood products in a bid to stop the hunt.