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
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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.
A 50ft fin whale has been washed ashore on the west coast island of Coll. Full Story
The body of a sperm whale has been washed ashore on the East Anglian coast. Full Story
A species of whale seen only twice in the past 25 years in Hebridean waters has washed up dead on the north west coast of Mull. Full Story