A deadly seal virus that has killed more than 1,000 animals on the east coast of England has spread to Scotland. Full Story
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The sound rises up from the ocean floor like a deep, throaty groan as some of the planet’s most endangered animals lumber through the Bay of Fundy.
The net was originally a 186-metre length of tough, braided cord mesh anchored to the sea floor just offshore from Palm Beach on the Gold Coast. Then the humpbacks came. Reports were confused at first. It seemed that only one whale had blundered into the
An orphaned Canadian killer whale made headlines last summer when she was plucked from busy Puget Sound and reunited with her family up north.
You can imagine all the logistic and personnel difficulties during these moments, mostly due to the long coast and the multitude of inaccessible creeks and beaches that characterise the island. All the strandings occurred during NATO naval exercises (manoeuvres called Neo tapon 2002E, in which at least 58 boats, 6 submarines, and 30 aeroplanes participated
Chemicals used to make household products fire-resistant are being discovered in several Arctic species. Full Story
A U.S. official says the International Whaling Commission appears likely to approve a bowhead whale quota for Alaska Eskimo subsistence whalers.
A major political battle over the future of European Union fisheries policies got underway in Brussels Tuesday with a first ministerial debate on radical reform proposals from the European Commission. Full Story: http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2002/2002
Packages labeled “whalemeat” for sale in a Japanese supermarket in May in fact contained porpoise meat, analysis forced by a British environmental group has found. Full Story: http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2002/2002-09-25-02.asp
The Great White Shark will be better protected under an international convention discussed in Germany overnight.