Animal rights activists are celebrating park board chair Heather Deal’s request to the Vancouver Aquarium to put its plans for more dolphins on hold.

A female calf will be released with four other pilot whales that stranded 93 days ago in Content Passage near Big Pine Key. Full Story

The latest whale pictures from the Irish Air Corps CASA Patrol Aircraft shows a sperm whale surfacing some 300km off the Donegal Coast. The WhaleLog project is a joint research project between the Irish Air Corps and the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group.

Killer whale advocates believe time is running out for Luna, an orphaned killer whale stranded in Canada’s Nootka Sound. Experts think Luna will wind up dead or in an aquarium, unless he’s immediately reunited with his pod.

Australia asked Mexico yesterday to block the import of 200 dolphins captured in the lawless Solomon Islands and held in crowded, shallow pens after being bought by a Mexican consortium.

A small-toothed whale found dead this month on a beach near Yakutat is the northernmost documented observation of a pygmy sperm whale on the Pacific Coast of North America.

At mid-day 15th July, the IWDG received a call that a whale had live- stranded in Oysterhaven, Co. Cork. On arrival, it was clear it was a fin whale and not a minke whale as had been earlier reported.

Dolphin watching is now attracting more tourists here. Although he failed to give specific figures, Bais City Mayor Hector “Tata” Villanueva claimed the number of incoming tourists, both foreigners and Filipinos, increased by as much as five times now.

A 13-metre-long whale which frolicked around the waters of the German port of Flensburg for a week has probably returned to sea, harbour police said Wednesday. F

Japan will decide before the general meeting of the International Whaling Commission next summer whether to withdraw from the organization, a fisheries ministry official said Monday.