A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked the Bush Administration’s bid to loosen standards under which tuna sold in U.S. stores can be labeled “dolphin safe” until the issue is resolved at trial.
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A crowd of 1,000 mourners turned up at a funeral for a whale in central Vietnam, where the creatures are revered, police said. Full Story
Ten to fifteen orcas entered a fjord in southern Greenland. One was killed in Qassiarsuk on 20 March and two others in Narsaq. Full Story
WDCS reports a huge success for dolphin conservation in Japan, as the infamous drive hunt season ends without a single dolphin killed in the notorious dolphin fishing village of Futo.
Simon figured that there was something a little too good to be true about our first brilliant couple of days whale-watching. He was right. We did see a scatter of whales on the 1st April, but they were much quieter than they had been and were not vocalising. Anyway we were due to make contact
On the passage down from Puerto Mogan, Gran Canaria to Cape Verde Ian Enlander mentioned in passing that he hoped this trip would act as something of a weight-watchers programme. I nodded to him in the positive; one of the inevitabilities of being at sea it seems to me is weight loss, either through being
This expedition to the Cape Verde Islands had a number of objectives. We hoped to contribute to the knowledge of whales around the islands; investigate possible links between humpback whales occurring around Cape Verde and Ireland and try and raise peoples’ awareness of, and interest in, whales in Ireland and our conservation responsibilities. For the
The remains of a 45ft sperm whale that washed up on the North Norfolk coast will be left to rot, English Nature told the EDP yesterday .
I have now left the boat to do a bit of island exploration – to see some more of the birdlife and climb the amazing looking volcano in Fogo. So a spot of reflection on the main business of the trip is timely. It is now over 2 weeks since we sailed from the Canaries
Iceland’s tourist chiefs say whaling “would cause great damage to the Icelandic tourist industry.” Full Story