The future of the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin, coveted by the aquarium industry worldwide, may be decided this week at a U.N. meeting in Chile to regulate trade in endangered species.
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Japan’s whaling fleet departed last week for an annual Antarctic whale hunt that aims to catch around 400 of the giant mammals, fisheries officials said. Full Story: http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/18528/story.htm
Britain will plead for special protection for gentle giant Basking Sharks at next week’s endangered animals summit, an evironment minister said. Full Stor
Since Phocine Distemper Virus was first confirmed in a harbour seal on the Galway coast on October 8th 2002 the Irish Seal Sanctuary has been monitoring seal deaths around the Irish coast.
The seas and coast around England are “damaged and declining”, according to a major report published on Wednesday. English Nature, the UK Government’s wildlife advisor, warns that the marine environment is showing signs of “significant stress and lo
Story: news.com.au Five Tasmanians survived a terrifying encounter with a large whale, which lifted their boat out of the water and tossed it around. The close encounter came about 8.30am on Saturday at Waterfall Bay, south of Eaglehawk Neck on the Tasman Peninsula. The whale, believed to be a mother protecting a calf, rose up
More than two months after arriving in Norway’s Skaalvik fjord, Keiko the killer whale is ready to be moved to another bay with fewer people and more wildlife. Full
The body of an 18.4-meter male sperm whale, the longest ever found in China, went on show at the Whale Aquarium of the Shanghai Marine Lives University on Sunday.
Eight sperm whales died after being stranded on a beach in Tasmania’s north coast.
The first humpback whales of the season were spotted off Maui over the weekend. Full Story: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Nov/05/ln/ln23a.html