The Cornish Wildlife email list reports that a heavily decomposed Cuvier’s beaked whale was washed up at Whitsand Bay, Cornwall on 7/7/02. Samples been collected by the NHM (London). This is the latest in several strandings of beaked whales that hav

A dead minke whale washed up on the beach at Lestre in Normandy on the 3rd July was found to have 800g of plastic bags in it’s stomach. The debris included 1 crisp packet, 2 English supermarket bags, 7 dustbin bag fragments and 7 transparent bags. I

The rotting carcass of a 30-tonne sperm whale has been removed from a beach near Edinburgh. Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_2098000/2098390.stm

In total, 1,132 dead seals have been reported in the Danish and Swedish Kattegat/Skagerrak area until now. In Sweden, the number of dead seals clearly increased since the last week.

Japan softened its opposition to whale hunting by Alaskan Eskimos Thursday, saying its goal was not to block the traditional hunts.

Agriculture Minister Tsutomu Takebe, defending Japanfs controversial scientific whaling program, has suggested the giant ocean mammals are taking food from the mouths of millions of starving people worldwide.

Story: www.msnbc.com Being held in captivity for 23 years made it clear that it is very, very difficult for the whale, whose name is Keiko, to be reintroduced into the wild, according to one of the whales handlers, Charles Vinick of Ocean Future, a nonprofit marine advocacy organization. Keiko was first captured in 1979, at

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Plans by Norway to sell whale products to Iceland have been condemned by UK Fisheries Minister Elliot Morley. Full Story: http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2002/020703b.htm

Scotland’s only resident colony of bottle-nosed dolphins could be at risk because of the use of illegal fishing nets, police have said. Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_2092000/2092403.stm