Taiwan is expected to be pressured to accept listing the whale shark as an endangered species as delegates from 160 countries gather in Santiago, Chile to amend the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Full Story: http://www.etaiwa

The world’s growing population and overfishing will mean around one billion people in developing countries will face shortages of fish, their most important source of protein, within 20 years. Full Story: http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/

Japan will seek to ease a ban on international whale meat trade at a U.N. meeting in Chile from Sunday despite opposition from many nations, environmentalists and even Norwegian whalers. Japan wants the conference on the U.N. Convention on Internati

A federal judge today issued a preliminary injunction stopping the U.S. Navy from deployment of a new high intensity sonar system that could hurt or kill whales, dolphins, seals and sea turtles with its loud signals. Full Story: http://ens-news.com/

The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) has adopted an unprecedented fishery management plan that prohibits the use of pelagic longline gear in the waters off California, Oregon and Washington. Conservation and fishing groups say the move will help

The NSW Government has announced sanctuaries to protect endangered grey nurse sharks. Conservationists say it is too little, too late. Full Story

The Bush administration will oppose Japan’s push to resume commercial whaling of two varieties, the minke whale and the Bryde’s whale, the Interior Department said Wednesday. Full Story: http://www.nj.com/newsflash/washington/index.ssf?/cgi-free/get

Story: society.guardian.co.uk Last month, 17 whales beached and died in the Canary Islands. Nobody knows for sure what killed them, but the government of the Canaries made an educated guess. Four mass whale strandings have occurred in the islands in the last 20 years, and each one of them coincided with Nato naval exercises. This

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This is not a story about the one who got away – rather a story of a fisherman who nearly did not get away.

The 160 governments who will meet in Santiago, Chile from 3-15 November for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) have a unique opportunity to help save some of the world’s most precious marine species