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.
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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
The grays’ migration off the coast one of the longest undertaken by any mammal is one of the rites of spring. Full Story
Massey University veterinarians are doing an autopsy on a rare Gray’s beaked whale. Full Story
When the first whaling stations were being established in Ireland between 1908 and 1914, already up to 1,105 humpback whales had been killed around Cape Verde by the American whaling fleet. Prior to 1867 more voyages by the whaling fleet were made to Cape Verde than the West Indies; after 1867 the vast majority of