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Killer whales leave porpoises for dead Vancouver, British Columbia (UPI) Oct 10, 2009 
Wildlife experts say they're trying to determine why fish-eating killer whales roughed up harbor porpoises and left them for dead off British Columbia.
Two incidents were observed within the past month, one off Washington state and the other in British Columbia's Strait of Georgia, The Vancouver Sun reported Saturday. While biologists see whales kill porpoises locally about twice ... read moreIceland plans huge whale meat export to Japan: firm 
Reykjavik (AFP) Sept 25, 2009Iceland's fin whaling company said on Friday it plans a huge export of about 1,500 tonnes of whale meat, mainly to Japan, after wrapping up its hunting season for this year. Kristjan Loftsson, boss of company Hvalur, said the firm brought ashore 125 fin whales this season following a huge rise in the number of animals they were allowed to catch. Last year the whalers were permitted to ... more
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Blue whales disturbed by seismic surveys, warn scientists
Paris (AFP) Sept 23, 2009Seismic surveys used for oil and gas prospecting on the sea floor are a disturbance for blue whales, the world's biggest animal and one of its rarest species, biologists reported on Wednesday. Lucia Di Iorio of Zurich University, Switzerland, and Christopher Clark, an acoustics specialist at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in New York, recorded the calls of blue whales at a feeding ... more Japanese town starts dolphin hunt under global spotlight 
Taiji, Japan (AFP) Sept 11, 2009To animal rights activists it's a cruel and bloody slaughter; for Japanese it's a long tradition: this week fishermen in a picturesque coastal town embarked on their annual dolphin hunt. Every year, crews in motorboats here have rounded up about 2,000 of the sea mammals, banged metal poles to herd them into a small, rocky cove and killed them with harpoons, sparing a few dozen for sale to ... more Dolphins Get A Lift From Delta Wing Technology 
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Jun 30, 2009We can only marvel at the way that dolphins, whales and porpoises scythe through water. Their finlike flippers seem perfectly adapted for maximum aquatic agility. However, no one had ever analysed how the animals' flippers interact with water; the hydrodynamic lift that they generate, the drag that they experience or their hydrodynamic efficiency. Laurens Howle and Paul Weber from Duke ... more Whaling ban holds as conference ends in disarray 
Funchal, Portugal (AFP) June 25, 2009The International Whaling Commission's annual conference ended in disarray Thursday, keeping in place a ban on commercial whaling amid deep rifts between hunters and conservationists. The commission's new chairman said the IWC should now question its role as the conference on the Portuguese island of Madeira wrapped up a day early with delegates agreeing only to extend negotiations on whaling ... more |
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Icelandic govt weak on whaling: Greenpeace
Reykjavik (AFP) June 21, 2009Just days ahead of the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting, Icelandic whalers landed two fin whales weighing 35 tonnes each, the first major catches of the season. But instead of savaging the whaling company responsible, Hvalur, or its boss Kristjan Loftsson, campaigners Greenpeace turned on the Iceland governnment. "The government has dismally failed to show leadership ... more Banned trade in whale meat is picking up 
Oslo (AFP) June 21, 2009Despite being officially illegal, the international trade in whale meat between hunting nations is quietly picking up again, say enviromental campaigners. The issue has become one of the flashpoints between pro- and anti-whaling campaigners in the run-up to the five-day annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission, which opens Monday. Delegates at the conference, which this ... more Hunting humpbacks: new plans attacked by environmentalists 
Lisbon (AFP) June 16, 2009Plans to resume the hunting of humpback whales, protected by a moratorium introduced more than 40 years ago, came under fire from environmentalists Tuesday, ahead of a key meeting. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) said Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory, intends to ask a summit on Monday to grant it permission to hunt a quota of 50 humpbacks over five years. ... more SAfrican officials kill 35 stranded whales 
Capetown, South Africa (AFP) May 30, 2009South Africa officials shot dead some 35 whales in a group of 55 stranded on a beach in the south of the country after efforts to save them failed, scientists said Saturday. The first whales washed up at 7:30 am (0530 GMT) on a beach off the Cape of Good Hope, at the southern tip of the country. Officials from the South African National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) helped by dozens of ... more |
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