Update 25 April 2013 IWDG welcome the post-mortems carried out at the Athlone Regional Veterinary Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on the common dolphins stranded on the northwest coast in January/February this year. The commissioning of post-mortems by suitably qualified vets has been a recommendation of the IWDG for many years and
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IWDG were informed today that the EPA have recommended that Dublin City Councils application for a Dumping at Sea licence in connection with the proposed wastewater treatment plant be withdrawn due to the late submission of an updated screening document for the Appropriate Assessment and Natura Impact Statement. The letter to IWDG is in response
IWDG were informed today that the EPA have recommended that Dublin City Councils application for a Dumping at Sea licence in connection with the proposed wastewater treatment plant be withdrawn due to the late submission of an updated screening document for the Appropriate Assessment and Natura Impact Statement. The letter to IWDG is in response
There seems to be a lot of stranding related stories on the home page of www.iwdg.ie and some are of very interesting species such as the sperm whale in Kerry and the white-beaked dolphin in Donegal…guess it’s that time of year which is typically our “low season” for sightings. But on the afternoon of Monday
There seems to be a lot of stranding related stories on the home page of www.iwdg.ie and some are of very interesting species such as the sperm whale in Kerry and the white-beaked dolphin in Donegal…guess it’s that time of year which is typically our “low season” for sightings. But on the afternoon of Monday
Experts who examined a dead sperm whale washed ashore in southern Spain have confirmed that it died from a blockage in the stomach caused by ingesting plastic debris. The full story can be seen at; http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/08/spain-sperm-whale-death-swallowed-plastic Sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus are the largest of the Odontocetes or toothed whales and are recorded stranded in
Experts who examined a dead sperm whale washed ashore in southern Spain have confirmed that it died from a blockage in the stomach caused by ingesting plastic debris. The full story can be seen at; http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/08/spain-sperm-whale-death-swallowed-plastic Sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus are the largest of the Odontocetes or toothed whales and are recorded stranded in
Well it’s not often that the IWDG Cetacean Stranding Scheme receives a record from the last century but we’ve recently received an interesting record from Andrew Sides of the Loughs Agency in Lough Foyle, Co. Derry of a northern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon ampullatus. The whale was caught in stake nets close to the city of
Well it’s not often that the IWDG Cetacean Stranding Scheme receives a record from the last century but we’ve recently received an interesting record from Andrew Sides of the Loughs Agency in Lough Foyle, Co. Derry of a northern bottlenose whale Hyperoodon ampullatus. The whale was caught in stake nets close to the city of
Providence Resources recently announced it has surrendered the Foreshore Licence granted over an area in the Kish Bank Basin, in Dublin Bay because the Irish Government had not correctly transposed the EIA Directive in 1999. This means that the proposed seismic survey in Dublin Bay and the Kish Bank Basin has been temporarily postponed until