Whalewatching is now expanding throughout Ireland and is set to become a million euro industry in Ireland. In order to ensure the responsible development of this industry the IWDG have launched a policy document outlining the necessary frameworks to ensu
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The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group organized an international conference in Rosscarbery, County Cork from 24-26 September, 2004. The theme of the conference was to put the recent discovery of the presence of fin and humpback whales off the south coast of Ireland into an international perspective. International experts from North America and Europe were
It wasn’t until the U.S. cruise ship had pulled into port in Atlantic Canada that those on board made a gruesome discovery – the body of a large whale was impaled on the vessel’s bow.
Yesterday evening 26th August a large whale appeared to be caught in lobster pots off Greencastle on the Donegal side of Lough Foyle entrance. The whale, which Andrew Speer local NPW Conservation Ranger has confirmed is around 40ft, is an adult humpback whale, died over night. At time of writing 11:00 am Fri. 27th it
The IWDG are now receiving a steady stream of first hand accounts of the bottlenose dolphin in Fanore, Co Clare interacting aggressively with swimmers. Thankfully, thus far, there have been no serious injuries, but we feel the public need to be alerted
Yesterday afternoon the IWDG received reports of 3 common dolphins live stranded at Cloghane, Co Kerry. We understand that by Saturday evening, one dolphin was dead but two were refloated. More details will be posted once received.
This morning 8th Sept 2004 at 08:30 Emer Rogan relayed a call to me from Clonakilty Garda Station that two dolphins had live stranded at the causeway between Inchydoney and Dunmore, West Cork at 51° 36 20N & 8° 53 30 W On arrival at the site local garda and fire brigade had dug around
We now understand that they stranded the previous evening, Sat. 4th. Two of the dolphins died overnight but the 3rd was still alive and appeared to be quite active. Despite a heavy discharge from its eyes, it seems this animal may be suitable for a refloat attempt. At time of writing (11:00 am) a tractor
A harbour porpoise that was live stranded in the Bannow estuary, Co Wexford was successfully refloated thanks to a very effective local effort.
“Boomerang”, as its become known, has in the last four years returned to the same area of West Cork, with a prodigious sense of timing. In each year since 2001 it has been monitored by IWDG in either the last week in August or first week in September.