Rescuers have failed in their latest attempt to rescue a 36-feet-long whale stranded off the Lincolnshire coast. Full Story
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Saying that harpoons mean unacceptable cruelty in slaughtering whales, animal welfare groups launched a global campaign yesterday to outlaw hunts of the biggest creatures on the planet.
Date: 2nd December 2003 Location: West of Mayo Species: Bottlenose Dolphins No. Animals: 35-40
New Zealand is aiming to use satellite tagging to try to save Maui’s dolphins, the world’s most endangered marine mammal. Full Story
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