A U.N. meeting on endangered species last week tightened controls on catching the world’s two largest types of fish, basking and whale sharks. Full Story: http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/18634/story.htm
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The U.S. Navy may temporarily test a new underwater sonar system in a much smaller area than originally planned, which will minimize harm to marine mammals, an environmental lawyer said. Full Story: http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid
The IWDG are organising three weekend whale-watching courses in summer/autumn 2003: July 18 – 20th. August 15 – 17th. September 19 – 21st. All 3 will be led by Pádraig Whooley, IWDG Secretary, who can be contacted at the address below for enquiries or bookings. The weekends are open to members and non-members alike. To
Participants at a global wildlife conservation conference on Thursday turned down Japan’s revised proposals for an international ban on trade in minke whales. Full Stor
Exploration company Santos has been told it can carry on looking for oil and gas when blue whales arrive to feed in Australian waters next month. Full Story<
Delegates to a U.N. conference on endangered species voted on Thursday to effectively halt all trade in the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin, a creature sought by aquariums around the world. Full Story: http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/world/4
The death of 22 bottlenose dolphins which were stranded in Long Island between Deadman’s Cay and Mangrove Bush, has left fishermen and employees of the Department of Agriculture baffled.
Story: www.theadvertiser.news.com.au An attack on a resident Port River dolphin has prompted calls for a police investigation. Dolphin researcher Dr Mike Bossley said yesterday he believed the dolphin, known as Two-Notch, had been attacked last weekend with a spear, harpoon or possibly a bullet. “I don’t know what caused the wound but it’s clearly not
Story: www.newsday.com Surprising new lessons in dolphin anatomy and polymer chemistry may be teaching researchers a thing or two about how to keep ship hulls free of tubeworms, barnacles and other aquatic freeloaders. Dolphins are well known among anatomists for the extraordinary hydrodynamic properties that allow them to reach sustained swimming speeds of 20 mph
The federal agency best known for taming Mother Nature has embarked on the most ambitious effort ever to rehabilitate the web of tideflats, marshes, bluffs and deltas that serves as nursery and buffet table for life in Puget Sound. Full Story: http:/