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Animals News tagged with Whales

Lobster Fishermen Alter Lines to Protect Whales
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, whales, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 29 minutes ago - cbc.ca
One of the world's most endangered marine mammals is getting some help from a small group of eastern Canadian fishermen who are trying to reduce a major threat to the animals by controlling the amount of lethal fishing line in the water
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New Japanese Government Urged To Ban Poisonous Whale And Dolphin Products
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, whales, dolphins, environment, protection, wildlife, killing )

Cher
- 20 hours ago - wdcs.org
A worldwide alliance of environmental and consumer organisations today called on the Japan's new government to take urgent action to stop the hunt of toothed cetaceans and ban the sale of contaminated whale, dolphin and porpoise products for human
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How Might Navy Sonar Affect Hearing of Whales and Other Marine Animals?
Animals  (tags: whales, sonar )

Angela
- 1 day ago - sciencedaily.com
Rocket science is opening new doors to understanding how sounds associated with Navy sonar might affect the hearing of a marine mammal -- or if they hear it at all.
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Pilot Whale and Sowerby's Beaked Whale Strand in Ireland
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, whales, stranded, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 1 day ago - wildlifeextra.com
A 5.1m long finned pilot whale Globicephala melas washed up on Dollar Bay, 2 kms south of Duncannon on the south coast of Ireland on Sunday, 22 November 2009.
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ENVIRONMENT: Gov't Silence Dooms Whales to Slaughter
Animals  (tags: whales, animals, animalwelfare, sadness, slaughter, killing, protection, endangered, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cal
- 2 days ago - ipsnews.net
Latin American governments are considering a bloc response to the Japanese whaling fleet's departure for Antarctica, in a new season of what it claims is "hunting for scientific purposes" and which threatens to kill 1,000 whales in the protected Southern
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Japan's Whaling Fleet Sets Sail Under Pressure
Animals  (tags: wildlife, whales, protection, endangered, animalwelfare, animals, humans )

Cal
- 7 days ago - theage.com.au
JAPANESE whalers have set out for waters off the Australian Antarctic Territory - the third season since the Rudd Government came to power hoping to end Southern Ocean whaling.
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Australia 'Disappointed' at Japan Whaling Mission
Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, whales, wildlife )

Maria
- 7 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Australia said it was "deeply disappointed" after a fleet of Japanese whaling ships set out to kill hundreds of the giant ocean mammals on their annual hunt. Environment Minister Peter Garrett urged Japan, which says the killings are for
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Sea Shepherd Could Lose Dutch Flag
Animals  (tags: whales, Sea Shepherd, politics, wildlife, animalwelfare, animals, humans )

Cal
- 8 days ago - rnw.nl
The organisation's flag ship sails under the Dutch flag, but a Dutch cabinet member is fed up with the situation. Deputy Transport Minister Tineke Huizinga says Sea Shepherd is endangering relations with Japan. If she gets her way, the environmental organ
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700+ Whales and Dolphins Seen From Scilly Ferry
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, whales, dolphins, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 8 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Cornish marine survey records 8 species from ferry November 2009. Marine life surveys conducted onboard Scillonian III this season by the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust have turned up some fantastic results, confirming that this route between Penzance
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Latin America Demands The Ending Of Scientific Whaling
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, whales, whaling, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 8 days ago - wdcs.org
Forty environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that work in Latin America requested their governments to take diplomatic actions against the killing of whales under supposed scientific purposes.
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Whale-Song Recording Goes Deep
Animals  (tags: whales, whale song, recording, studies, marine life )

Simone
- 16 days ago - nature.com
Silently slipping to 1,000 metres below the ocean surface, an undersea glider equipped with a recording device is cruising off Hawaii to capture unprecedented detail on the sounds made by whales.
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ACTION ALERT: Stop Illegal Whaling Done By The Japanese!
Animals  (tags: whales, dolphins, whaling, illegal, president obama, japanese whaling, cruelty )

Simone
- 19 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Help me fight against the illegal whaling being done by the Japanese. I will send a letter with everyones signature on it showing how many people want to stop the slaughter of innocent dolphins and whales. Please put your signature on this petition and
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Rare Whale Gathering Sighted
Animals  (tags: whales, GoodNews, animals, wildlife, wildanimals, investigation, protection )

Cal
- 22 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A large group of a rarely sighted, mysterious species of whale has been seen off the coast of Antarctica.Approximately 60 Arnoux's beaked whales were seen and photographed frolicking on the surface in the Gerlache Strait.
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Scientist Claims Sperm Whales in Southern Ocean Are Carbon Neutral
Animals  (tags: animals, whales, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 31 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Because of their enormous body size, whales have been thought to contribute a considerable amount of carbon dioxide to the total greenhouse gas build-up whenever they exhale. However, Trish J. Lavery of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia claims
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Success For Cetaceans In The Moray Firth
Animals  (tags: animals, dolphins, whales, protection, environment, habitat, wildlife )

Cher
- 31 days ago - wdcs.org
We have been informed by the UKs Royal Navy that they did not conduct active sonar operations as part of exercise Joint Warrior within the Moray Firth in Scotland, and that any military activities that did take place in the North Sea were carried out
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Pilot Whale and Sowerby's Beaked Whale Strand in Ireland
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Lobster Fishermen Alter Lines to Protect Whales
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