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A pilot whale live stranded on 29 June in Poulnasherry Bay. Despite the best efforts of local IWDG members, it was found dead this morning (30 June) near Moyasta, Co Clare. Winkle-pickers in Poulnasherry Bay near Kilrush, County Clare reported a large shark washed up and alive at around 10:00 on Tuesday 29 June. Two

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Fiberglass sharks might help to scare endangered sea turtles away from long-line fish hooks as part of a drive to protect the world’s migratory species, the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) said yesterday.

More than a hundred dolphins, eight marine turtles and five beaked whales have washed up dead on the windswept beaches of southern Mauritania in recent days, puzzling scientists and worrying the government.

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) – More than a hundred dolphins, eight marine turtles and five beaked whales have washed up dead on the windswept beaches of southern Mauritania in recent days, puzzling scientists and worrying the government. Experts from the West African country’s Institute of Oceanographic Research and Fishing visited the scene but were unable to take

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The United Nations sounded an alarm over the health of the world’s oceans Friday, warning that aggressive fishing threatened little-understood corals it called “kindergartens of the oceans.”

Environmental groups urged the United Nations yesterday to ban so-called bottom trawl fishing in international waters, calling the practice the most destructive fishing practice on the high seas.