At present, Nimmo’s Pier, in the heart of Galway city, is alive with wildlife! A bottlenose dolphin, believed to be semi resident in the area, has been sighted frequently over the last few weeks. The dolphin has been observed just beyond the wall at the end of the pier, spending most of his/her time approximately
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On Friday evening 25th March at 8:00pm on ITV, you’ll have an opportunity to see watch spectacular aerial footage of bubble-netting humpback whales, filmed by drone in the Dingle Bay area during Sept. 2015. This portion of the show was a collaboration with IWDG and the footage which is a first for the
Some of you may have had the pleasure of seeing the antics of the bottlenose dolphin, known as "Clet" during the summer of 2014, when between mid May through to October, the IWDG sighting scheme tracked his movements along Cork and Kerry and up the West coast as he moved north though Irish waters. There
Updated 11 March 2016 Recorded deaths of common dolphins on the west coast of Ireland between 1 January and today’s date (11 March) in 2016 have reached a new record high, with 36 confirmed so far (excluding others where species wasn’t confirmed due to body condition which were simply recorded as ‘dolphin species’). The previous high
Dr Simon Berrow, Chief Science Officer and Acting CEO of the IWDG, will feature on RTE Radio 1 Mooney Goes Wild between 10-11pm this Sunday (21 Feb) evening. Simon will discuss the implications of new research into concentrations of persistent pollutants in dolphins and porpoise around Europe, including Ireland. He will also talk with the
There will always for some very obvious reasons be a bias towards reporting of the larger whale species such as the fin and humpback whales along the Irish South and Southwest, as these tend to attract more public and media attention, and indeed we've almost certainly also been guilty of giving the bigger blubber species
Bottlenose dolphins, striped dolphins and Killer whales are still under huge threat due to persistent pollutants accumulated in their bodies. A new study just published in Scientific Reports (http://www.nature.com/articles/srep18573) explores levels and trends in organochlorine residues in a number of populations including bottlenose dolphins and killer whales in Ireland. This study involving 31 partners throughout
Last night's humpback whale presentation by IWDG Sightings Officer Padraig Whooley, Cape Verdes film, Q&A in Clonakilty Library was a great success, with a full house of over 50 people. Big thanks to local library staff and Micheal Plaice who were so supportive of this event from the start. Great to meet up with whale
Excellent initiative by the Irish fishing industry and BIM to start addressing the serious issue of marine debris. http://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/news/fishing-for-litter-initiative-encourages-fishermen-to-take-ashore-the-litter-they-catch-376752.html Entanglement and ingestion of marine plastic is a problem globally and locally and we have considerable evidence of plastic ingestion by whales and dolphins in Ireland including both macro-plastics and micro-plastics. There is no justification for
During the last couple of weeks, 16 male sperm whales have stranded on North Sea coasts of the UK, Holland and Germany. While not unusual for male sperm whales to be found at these latitudes, they would typically be found in deep offshore waters at or beyond the edge of the continental shelf rather than