The research yacht “Anna M” finally left Sal Rei harbour yesterday (Tuesday), in it’s search for humpback whales, after being pinned down for two days by a huge Atlantic swell. The swell originated from a hurricane in the Azores 1500km to the northwest of the Cape Verde Islands and reached 4-5m as they rolled into
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The first gray whales of the season appeared off the Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak Island last week. Full Story
Mexico said last week it would likely seek to overturn an injunction by a U.S. judge that effectively revived a ban of more than a decade on Mexican tuna exports to the United States.
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.
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