British Columbia – Springer the killer whale has returned to Canada’s Pacific coast, much to the relief of scientists who organized a ground-breaking family reunion for the animal last year.

The world’s longest reef is losing its dugongs and nesting sea turtles at a rapid rate, according to the first comprehensive assessment of the Great Barrier Reef since 1998. <

Italy’s age-old custom of swordfishing isn’t likely to be stopped by EU law — instead last year’s ban on dangerous nets has created a league of ‘pirate’ fishermen willing to go to extreme measures for the days’ catch.

Dozens of wild dolphins have been caught in the strife-torn Solomon Islands and are being held in makeshift pens as part of a scheme by a foreign syndicate to sell them around the world.

In light of an alarming recent increase in mortality events, it is becoming clear that man-made noise, at different intensity levels, negatively affects cetacean populations in important ways.

China supports international efforts to actively conserve and rationally exploit whales, but is reserving its decision on setting up whale sanctuaries until it receives more scientific data, a Chinese fisheries official said Wednesday.

Danish officials have lost sight of a whale that turned up in the Oeresund Strait dividing Denmark and Sweden at the weekend, and warned that it could wreak havoc to sailboats.

A porpoise found dead in May after Navy exercises near the San Juan Islands showed signs of internal bleeding that naval sonar could have caused, environmentalists reported yesterday.

The 12-metre-wide remains of a sea creature found by the Chilean navy are puzzling marine scientists, who think it may be a new species. Full Story

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Wednesday that Japan — one of the world’s biggest consumers of whale meat — should not leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and should keep seeking support inside the group for its bid to restart comm