Story:www.themercury.news.com.au An overnight vigil with eight stranded false killer whales on the West Australian south coast has ended in tragedy for the animals with the survivors put down. Local fisherman came across 58 whales stranded at Tooregullup Beach, about 180km east of Albany, late yesterday afternoon, said WA Conservation and Land Management (CALM) department executive
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A stranded juvenile male Risso’s dolphin was found dead at Ringaskiddy, Cork Harbour on Saturday. It is thought to be the same animal who made news headlines last week when he swam up the River Lee as far as Fr. Matthew Quay. The animal was assessed by IWDG personnel at the time and deemed to
The Institute of Cetacean Research Whale said Friday it will sell in Japan’s wholesale markets from July 31 to Aug. 31 the meat of minke whales caught for research purposes a practice criticized by many other countries and activists. Full Story: ht
Story:www.canada.com Springer, the orphaned baby killer whale, may have found a new mom. The two-year-old orca appears to have struck up a relationship with a 16-year-old female, called A-51. It appears A-51 has taken a motherly interest in Springer. It’s too early to know if the match will last but signs are hopeful. “It’s not
Sea temperatures at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef last summer were the warmest on record and this year’s El Nino event means the risk of mass coral bleaching has increased considerably, scientists reported yesterday.
New images of Springer the killer whale show the orphaned orca alive and well — and sharing waters with several other wild whales.
Scientists from the New England Aquarium and the state of Georgia are attempting to find and rescue a 45-foot right whale that was entangled in lobster lines in the South Atlantic. Full Story: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/072402/met
Almost 60,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises are killed each year worldwide by entanglement with fishing nets, a coalition of the world’s leading cetacean scientists reported Tuesday. The scientists have agreed to form a global response team, the Cetacean
Our new website is designed to be more interactive. We now have a fully searchable sightings and strandings database which allows you to search for sightings or strandings by county or species or both! The strandings database is up to date but please bear with us for a while and we will have the sightings
It was over a decade ago that Pacific tuna fisheries, pressured by public outcry in the United States, rushed to label their cans “dolphin safe,” a guarantee that their fishing practices would not harm the intelligent marine animals that Americans had com