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Animals News tagged with nets

One Humpback Whale Caught Every 10 Days in Queensland Beach Nets
Animals  (tags: animals, whales, nets, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, suffering, wildlife )

Cher
- 48 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Another Humpback Whale has been caught in a shark net off Australia's Queensland Coast, this is the 5th Humpback snared since September 2009, an average of 1 humpback whale caught every 10 days. The entangled Humpback whale calf was accompanied by a
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Remove the Nets Along the KwaZulu-Natal Coast Line ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, nets, killed, marine life, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 155 days ago - animalrights.change.org
It is difficult to believe in this day in age, with all that we know about sharks' plummeting populations, their critical role in ocean ecosystems, and the minimal risk they pose to humans, that the archaic and destructive practice of installing shark
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Remove the Nets: Join the Shark Angels' Campaign Against Shark Nets ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, nets, killing, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 173 days ago - all-creatures.org
Support fhe removal of shark nets throughout KwaZulu-Natal. By signing this petition you are agreeing that the practice of shark culling through the use of shark nets is archaic and a new approach that eliminates wildlife casualties must be implemented.
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Tell the Government to Protect Sea Turtles From Trawls! Take Action!
Animals  (tags: sea turtles, trawls, Ted, nets, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 283 days ago - takeaction.oceana.org
Many of our country's trawl fisheries accidentally injure and kill endangered sea turtles by entangling them in their massive nets.
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Record Number of Entangled Rare Whales This Winter
Animals  (tags: georgia, florida, marine wildlife, whales, right whales, entangled, record numbers, fishing gear, nets, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection, suffering )

Jacquelin
- 292 days ago - boston.com
An unprecedented number of North Atlantic right whales have been found tangled in fishing rope this winter off Georgia and Florida - and scientists are searching where the marine giants that summer off New England may have picked up the gear.
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Horrific Dolphin Deaths Show Maui at Risk
Animals  (tags: new zealand, endangered dolphins, threatened, fisherman, nets, disappearing, deaths, investigation )

Simone
- 622 days ago - wwf.org.nz
Photos of 22 dead common dolphins, killed in trawl nets along the west coast of the North Island last December, are horrific and sobering proof that current fishing restrictions cannot adequately protect Maui's dolphins. The photos were released
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Saving Dolphins With Sonar
Animals  (tags: sonar, echolocation, cetaceans, dolphins, whales, nets, research, study, technology, protection )

John
- 626 days ago - popsci.com
Fortunately for whales and other cetaceans (dolphins, porpoises) who use echolocation, an entirely different sonar technology may now prove to save these animals' lives.sonar
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