The Australian government has condemned Japan's "regrettable" decision to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whaling. The Japanese government's withdrawal from the global body, announced on Wednesday, will see commercial hunts in the country's territorial and economic waters start in July 2019. Announcing the decision, Chief Cabinet …
Ozeaneum, an ambitious oceanography museum opened its doors to the public in the north-eastern German port town of Stralsund on July 12. It contains 39 huge fish tanks and seven life-size models of whales. Ozeaneum is an architecturally dramatic extension to the existing Oceanography Museum in Stralsund, a town on …
Is Japan's research whaling, which claims about 1000 whales a year, scientific investigation or disguised commercial whaling? A new review process endorsed by the International Whaling Commission last week at its 60th annual meeting hopes to get closer to the answer.
Humpback whale numbers in the northern Pacific Ocean have ballooned to nearly 20,000, the largest population seen since the majestic mammals were hunted nearly to extinction half a century ago. The number of humpbacks hit an all-time low of1,400 or even lower by 1966, when their hunting was banned internationally. …
After spiritual guru Morari Bapu played brand Ambassador to save the killing of whale shark by the fishermen, the forest department has sought help from the coast guard to monitor the movement of fishermen and check illegal killing of whale sharks in mid sea. The efforts of conservation seem to …
Trouble is brewing in the waters off the Chukotka Peninsula in the far east of Siberia. In the past few years, the aboriginal whalers of the eastern coastline who hunt grey whales for meat have reported that an increasing number of the creatures they catch smell so foul that even …
Playa Punta Norte: A six-ton orca, or killer whale, torpedoes toward the beach, its dorsal fin cutting the Patagonian sea. It launches itself onto the sand in an explosion of water and foam. Before the waters die down, the orca is shaking its immense head from side to side with …
Japan May Raise Antarctic Whale Meat Prices JAPAN: April 16, 2008 TOKYO - Japan may raise prices of whale meat to finance the next round of its annual Antarctic hunt after activists stopped it whaling fleet from killing their target number of animals, a government official said on Tuesday. This …
Japan Kills 551 Antarctic Whales, Short Of Target JAPAN: April 15, 2008 TOKYO - Japan's Antarctic whaling catch fell far short of its target this season, hampered by a series of skirmishes with anti-whaling protesters, the Fisheries Agency said on Monday. The fleet caught only 551 minke whales, compared with …
>> Governments of Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast have announced a joint health programme to tackle a meningitis epidemic, which has gripped the bordering area of the two countries. By the second week of March, the disease killed 441 people in Burkina Faso and 44 people in Ivory Coast. More …
Japan To Inspect Protest-Hit Whaling Fleet - Media JAPAN: April 14, 2008 TOKYO - Japanese coast guard and police will inspect the country's whaling fleet this week after the ships' heated clashes with conservation activists in the Southern Ocean earlier in the year, media reported on Sunday. Investigations so far …
>> Virgin Airlines owner Richard Branson recently claimed to have made history by launching the first biofuel-powered commercial flight from London to Amsterdam. The debatable point is: it took 150,000 coconuts and some babassu palm oil from the Amazon rainforest to power 20 per cent of one of four tanks …
This image of a minke whale and a calf being dragged on to a Japanese whaling ship is just one of a sequence showing the mammals being chased and slaughtered in the Antarctic Ocean, say Australian custom officials who tracked the vessel for a month. Releasing the pictures, the Australian …
The carcass of the largest mammal on earth - blue whale - was washed ashore on the Jamnagar coast, leaving local villagers in awe. The 50-feet carcass was found lying in the mangroves at Narara island, about 65 kilometres from Jamnagar. The mammoth carcass was eight feet wide and four …
The Federal Government has criticised crew members aboard the anti-whaling vessel Steve Irwin for throwing stink bombs at Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters. The Sea Shepherd activists bombarded the deck of the Nisshin Maru with bottles and packets containing foul-smelling and slippery substances earlier today, about 175 nautical miles off …
Following intense pressure from the International Whaling Commission (iwc), Japan has dropped plans to hunt humpback whales during this year's annual whaling expedition, which is underway in the Antarctic Ocean. In November 2007, Japan despatched its whaling fleet to the Antarctic in the first major hunt of humpback whales since …
THE Southern Ocean is usually one of the world's loneliest shipping lanes. This month it has turned into an unseemly battleground over a bid by Australia's government and various environmental groups to stop Japan hunting and slaughtering whales. Japan aims to kill more than 900 minke and 50 fin whales …
This publication details the successful story of participatory conservation of Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) in Gujarat lead by WTI. The whale shark campaign is one of the stellar conservation stories that have come out of India in the past few years. To take a fish that was hunted and traded …
A five-metre minke whale strayed 1,600 km from the Atlantic Ocean and ran aground on a sandbank in the Amazon jungle's Tapajos river on November 13. Though it was spotted and freed, it did not survive. According to Brazil's environmental regulator, Ibama, local residents first spotted the whale beached on …
