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

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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

Endangered whales and enemy submarines have been saved by a Californian judge, who has banned a new naval sonar device.

They had bulled through more than 3,000 miles of wilderness, cataloguing scores of plants and animals new to science, and found this same ocean. They walked on Long Beach to the south and wintered in Oregon, but the westward course of their discovery ende

The number of sightings of dolphins in the Firth of Forth has increased by a record 50 per cent, according to new figures. Data collected by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT) indicates that there have been 143 reported sightings so far th

The meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in Santiago, Chile, has the task of balancing the protection of rare species with the promotion of sustainable development. Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wor

On the surface, the issue seemed so simple: regulating Mexico’s shark catch, a source of food and income for thousands of Mexican families. But a surprising uproar greeted Mexico’s first attempt to manage its shark fisheries, one of the world’s larg