Veterinarians who had donated most of their waking hours to nursing an ailing spotted dolphin since Christmas decided to euthanize it when it could no longer swim and they saw “no chance of recovery.”

Two former government scientists who spent years investigating stress in dolphin populations charged this week that superiors at their federally financed laboratory shut down their research because it clashed with policy goals of the Clinton and Bush admi

The Commerce Department has agreed to delay implementation of its new, weaker rules governing the dolphin safe tuna label, pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed against the regulations by environmental groups.

In what was hailed as a “great day for whales,” a federal judge in San Francisco this week blocked the start of a sonar research project that conservation groups said would have disoriented gray whales migrating up the California coast.

A 10-metre-long endangered Sei whale that became stranded on a Gulf of Mexico sandbar has died, despite efforts by residents to rescue the beached mammal. Full Sto

The number of Brydes whales found dead in New Zealand waters is disturbing conservationists.

Rescuers pushing and dragging whales managed to refloat 39 members of a beached pod during high tide Wednesday as dozens of other whales lay dead on a remote island off southern New Zealand, officials said.

A potentially life-saving “whale radar” is being tested in a sea lane near the Canary Islands in which as many as 10 whales are killed each year by collisions with ships.

Whalemeat recipes from New Zealand listed on a pro-whaling website have angered the Greens, who say references to New Zealand should be removed. Full Story<