Puffins have bred on Ailsa Craig off the Ayrshire coast for the first time in 50 years. Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2265149.stm

The outbreak of Phocine Distemper Virus has now claimed up to 12,000 animals across NW Europe. In the UK 1,005 animals have been found dead, most cases are from the Norfolk coast.

An 8-foot dwarf sperm whale, which beached earlier this week on Matagorda Island, has died despite rescuers’ attempts to save it by feeding it fluids and giving it antibiotics.

Keiko the whale, star of the Free Willy films, is likely to be looked after in Norway over the winter after an unsuccessful attempt to release him into the wild, his handler has said. Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2254379

Australian authorities want total preservation of the minke whale and will push to extend the Bonn convention for the protection of migratory animals to cover sperm and Bryde’s whale.

A baby whale, emaciated and barely alive, washed up on a stretch of sand at Gilgo State Park yesterday before rescuers arrived to euthanize the starving creature. Full Story: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-whale0912.story?coll=ny%2Dl

Efforts to give Alaska Native tribes the authority to set management rules for seal, walrus and whale hunting appear to have stalled for another year in Congress. Full Story: http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/1770624p-1886629c.html

Story: www.koin.com Scientists suspect a pod of orca whales attacked a fin whale that was found dead near a cargo ship in Portland early last week. The fin whale was estimated to be between four and six years old. It was discovered alongside the car carrier Ruby Ray at the Port of Portland. Keith Chandler,

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Gov. Ben Cayetano has approved a federal plan to expand the protection of humpback whales to include endangered monk seals and sea turtles in Hawaiian waters. Full Story: http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20020912&Category=APN&A

Beluga whales in West Greenland waters are too few in number to continue with present harvesting levels, according to a newly published assessment by the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO). Present harvests are several times the sustainable