Story: www.boston.com Japan’s top whaling official indicated yesterday that Tokyo would block US attempts to reinstate a five-year whale-hunting season for Alaskan Eskimos. The issue has been a flashpoint between the two countries since Japan led a drive, at a May meeting of the International Whaling Commission, to ban the hunting of bowhead whales by
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A coalition of groups led by the Natural Resources Defense Council said it would file suit on Wednesday to block the U.S. Navy from using a powerful new sonar that scientists say could injure whales and other marine mammals. Full Story: http://www.p
Keiko the whale, star of the hit film “Free Willy,” is adjusting to life in the wild after years in captivity and now lives with a school of killer whales off Iceland’s south coast, scientists said Tuesday.
The European Commission said on Monday it would introduce licences for shark fishing to prevent fishermen cutting off sharks’ fins and dumping the carcasses back in the sea. Full Story: http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/17166/story.
Some 20,000 seals, around half the seal population of Western Europe, are expected to die from a virus raging in the seas between southern Sweden and the Dutch coast, a Swedish scientist said on Friday. Full Story: http://www.planetark.org/dailynewss
Environmental campaigners in America are concerned about a new danger to the world’s whale population. Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/2168168.stm
An extremely rare Longman’s beaked whale, only the third complete specimen known to science, has washed up on a South African beach, a senior scientist said on Sunday. Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2172543.stm
A deadly virus which has already killed thousands of seals in northern Europe has reached Germany, officials have confirmed. Full Story
The Irish Air Corps located and photographed a pod of four fin whales off the south west coast on July 26th, while on routine patrol.
Norway said Tuesday that more scientific discussions with Japan were needed on the measurement of contaminants in whale products before both countries could start trading in whale meat and blubber. Full Story: http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&ca