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A female bottlenose dolphin was washed ashore in Doonbeg, Co. Clare yesterday. The animal was caught in gillnets, with net wrapped around the mouth and 7m of net trailing behind. The Shannon Estuary is home to Ireland’s only resident population of bottlenose dolphins. The stranding comes hot on the heels of a report from the

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It looks like even 33-foot whales come to Florida to spend their final days, according to the necropsy recently performed on the adult female sperm whale found dead on the beach at Gasparilla Island. Full Story:http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/

Overfishing and pollution in oceans off the U.S. coast threatening sea turtles and marine mammals with extinction, destroying coral reefs and making some water unfit for swimming, an environmental group said in a report issued this week. Full Story:

Boaters and tourists enjoying coastal waters this summer are encouraged to admire wild dolphins from a distance, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Full Story: http://ens-news.com/ens/jul2002/2002-07-10-09.asp#anchor8

THE country’s landscape is suffering from a lack of environmental protection which results in farmers, planners, forestry and tourism bodies working towards different goals, the Heritage Council has warned. Full Story:http://www.unison.ie/irish_inde

The orphaned orca plucked from Puget Sound will head back to her home waters Friday aboard a high-speed catamaran ferry. Full Story: http://home.abc28.com/Global/story.asp?S=850024

Story: www.thestar.com An endangered North Atlantic right whale was entangled in a mess of fishing gear off the Nova Scotia coast just as many of the mammals were beginning their annual trek into Canadian waters. The whale was thought to be somewhere off Briar Island, struggling in a tangle of what was believed to be

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Diomede, the Bering Sea village that lost a resident during a whale hunt in late June, did not have a gray whale quota and will be fined for the infraction by the International Whaling Commission. Full Story: http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/1386144p-