The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group is mounting an expedition to answer a mystery which has intrigued researchers for many years… where do our Humpback Whales come from? Each year small numbers of humpback whales appear off the South-west coasts of Ireland. These whales been photographed but not yet linked into any of the existing
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Norway’s whalers killed 634 whales out of a quota of 671 in 2002, the biggest catch since the nation resumed commercial whaling in 1993 under a legal objection lodged against the IWC’s moratorium. Full Story: http://www.wdcs.org/dan/news.nsf/webnews
Story: www.themercury.news.com.au A severe case of sunburn added to the woes of a pygmy right whale stranded in Mortimer Bay near South Arm yesterday. The 4m female was sent on her way by rescuers late yesterday afternoon but the immediate future of the sun-scarred young leviathan will not be known until a check today reveals
The United States will oppose Japan’s call for lifting bans on the international trade of minke and Bryde’s whales at a global wildlife conservation meeting in November in Chile, a U.S. official said Wednesday. Full Story: http://japantoday.com/e/?co
Story: www.canada.com Whale researchers at Nanaimo’s Pacific Biological Station were given a unique opportunity to study and catalogue a pod of about 50 offshore Killer Whales as they travelled in the Strait of Georgia last month. Graeme Ellis, a biologist with the marine mammal program at the PBS, said having a pod of offshore whales
The coasts of southern Asia face a greater threat than anywhere else in the world from the discharge of untreated sewage, the United Nations says. Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2293621.stm
The U.S. Navy said yesterday it was cooperating with a Spanish-led investigation into the beaching of more than a dozen whales off the Canary Islands last week during multinational military exercises there. Full Story: http://www.planetark.org/daily
A deadly seal virus that has killed more than 1,000 animals on the east coast of England has spread to Scotland. Full Story
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