New Zealand is aiming to use satellite tagging to try to save Maui’s dolphins, the world’s most endangered marine mammal. Full Story
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We had a live stranding this afternoon March 1st 2004 on Rosslare Strand – a common dolphin mother and calf pair got caught out in the tide and marooned. [Pictures below!] The Lifeboat, coastguard and NPWS scrambled and I arrived on scene at 5.15pm to find two very distressed animals. While my initial plan was
Upwards of 50 common dolphins have spent the last three weeks in the Waterford Estuary, close to the Ballyhack/Passage East car ferry. They have remained in this area and have ventured further inland, on occasions going upriver as far as Cheekpoint. This wonderful event was captured on film by RTE and local photographers on February
After having completed 22 watches around Blasket Sound in West Kerry, from either Dunmore Head or Slea Head, it seemed like a good time for me to review the results so far. This report covers a 16 month period from the 6 October 2002 and concludes on the 11 February 2004 at an average of
The corpses of 128 seals, nine dolphins and nine pelicans washed up on a beach in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico’s government said on Monday. Full Story
The activity in the Hook Head area seems to be continuing. Obviously the resumption in sightings has been made possible by the current anticyclonic weather which is leaving us such unseasonably settled weather.
An online mapping system which displays information about turtles’ nesting and migration habits should help to protect them against further survival threats. Full Story
Scientists from around the world have called for a ban on a fishing practice known as bottom trawling, amid concerns that it is causing unprecedented damage to deep sea eco-systems.
Five dead dolphins were today spotted in the vicinity of two sets of pair trawlers in the Channel, the environmental pressure group Greenpeace said today. Full Story
Carcasses of hundreds of endangered sea turtles, bludgeoned and carved open by poachers, litter the virgin beach of San Valentin on Mexico’s Pacific coast in Guerrero state.