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Animals News tagged with ocean

Whale Wars Saga Begins With Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson Under Investigation
Animals  (tags: whale, wars, Paul, Watson, Sea, Shepherd, Animal, Planet, ocean, Japan, hunt, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection, suffering, cruelty, slaughter, animalrights, investigation, politics, Australia )

Tom
- 53 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Watson's police and court records are being evaluated before he's allowed to enter Australia to start his annual campaign. Watson claims politics are behind all of this, saying, "I'm not wanted on any warrants and I've never received a felony conviction."
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On Dives, Hungry Whales Go Slow and Open Wide
Animals  (tags: animals, mammals, whales, Bowheads, diving, feeding, wild life, ocean )

Dee
- 94 days ago - nytimes.com
What's the whale to do? It could filter-feed only occasionally, or it could feed continuously but slow down. Either way reduces drag, and thus the energy expended.
8 comments
How Norway and Japan Subsidise Whaling
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife, wildanimals, ocean, sea, whales, suffering, habitat, environment, cruelty, endangered, death, extinction, navy, government, obama, americans, japan, norway, trade, demand )

Tom
- 157 days ago - wwf.org.uk
Norway and Japan are using taxpayer money to subsidise unprofitable whaling industries. These costs, combined with declining whale meat demand and negative risks to trade or tourism boycotts, make commercial whaling unlikely to produce economic benefits.
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Manatees Can Probably Hear Which Directions Boats Approach From
Animals  (tags: animals, Mammals, manatees, wildanimals, ocean, endangered, AnimalWelfare )

Dee
- 168 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (June 12, 2009) -- The world is a perilous place for the endangered manatee. While the mammals are at risk from natural threats, human activity also poses a great danger to manatee numbers.
5 comments
Sign Petition: Stop Japan's Dolphin Slaughter
Animals  (tags: animals, dolphin, porpoise, ocean, sea, japan, hunters, wildlife, wildanimals, suffering, sadness, cruelty, death, endangered, habitat, environment, protection, killing )

Tom
- 173 days ago - change.org
Every year Japanese fishermen, with the support of the Japanese government, slaughter thousands of dolphins in a brutal manner. Demand that Japanese law end this brutal slaughter of intelligent marine mammals and protect the health of the people of Japan!
24 comments
Oil Hunters Started Decimating Whale Populations as Early as 1800
Animals  (tags: animals, whales, oil, hunters, environment, endangered, extinction, humans, orcas, blue, sharks, thresher, porpoise, dolphin, new zealand, england, ocean, sea, fishing, science, investigation, research, study, discovery )

Tom
- 186 days ago - thaindian.com
One of several astonishing reconstructions of ocean life in olden days suggests that the ocean around New Zealand teemed with about 27,000 southern right whales, about 30 times as many as today, before oil hunters started to whaling in the early 1800s.
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Ocean Race to Detour for Whales Near Boston
Animals  (tags: Whales, Racing, marine mammals, ocean, migrations, death, protection )

Dee
- 215 days ago - nytimes.com
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet has raced for nearly 30,000 nautical miles, through garbage-strewn waters in the China Sea, around a pirate zone on the way to India and over 20-foot waves in the Southern Ocean.
5 comments
Diving Dolphins Delight Off New Zealand's Kaikoura Coast - New Zealand
Animals  (tags: new zealand, nz, dolphin, dolphins, swimming, ocean, diving )

Chrissy
- 218 days ago - news.com.au
DARK fins were slicing the calm blue waters towards the swimmers in their black wetsuits and snorkels. But it didn't faze the group who were making odd squeals as they tried to attract the wild dolphins who live off the beautiful Kaikoura coast in NZ
3 comments
Sonar Can Cause Temporary Deafness in Dolphins
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, Dolphins, ocean, sonar, endangered, protection, sadness, wildlife )

Dee
- 227 days ago - nytimes.com
Sonar has been implicated in some strandings of whales and dolphins, but the mechanism by which acoustic pings might cause disorientation is uncertai
1 comment
Sign Petition: Mercury Levels in Seals Rising - Reverse the Trend
Animals  (tags: animals, seals, mercury, ocean, sea, ice, contamination, cod, research, arctic, global warming, habitat, environment, endangered )

Tom
- 230 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Global warming is changing the ecology of the Arctic Ocean - and the effects on the inhabitants of the Arctic are just starting to come to light. A just-released research report links vanishing sea ice to a shocking rise in mercury levels in ringed seals.
22 comments
1/4th of World's Atlantic Right Whales Gather Off Cape Cod
Animals  (tags: animals, GoodNews, right, whales, environment, endangered, habitat, scientists, atlantic, ocean, zooplankton )

Tom
- 242 days ago - ecoworldly.com
There are only about 325 North Atlantic right whales left in the world, and approximately 80 of them have assembled in the waters near Cape Cod. They have come together to feed on an unusually huge population of zooplankton.
5 comments
Sign Petition: Put An End to Shark Finning - Not on Our Menu!
Animals  (tags: animals, ocean, japan, china, malay, asia, marine, food chain, sharks, fins, sadness, suffering, cruelty, endangered, extinction, protection )

Tom
- 244 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Sharks survived the mass extinction of the dinosaurs but are now in danger of being lost forever. By removing apex predators from the food chain, we tilt the ecological balance of our seas. This threatens the stability of all marine life and humanity.
13 comments
Yes, Polar Bears Are in Serious Trouble
Animals  (tags: animals, polar bears, oil, environment, greenhouse gas, obama, bush, salazar, palin, politics, government, habitat, species, endangered, climate change, wildlife, ocean, humans, global warming, arctic )

Tom
- 246 days ago - theolympian.com
The erroneous notion that polar bears aren't in trouble was put forth by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin when she sued the federal government to overturn its decision to include the polar bear as an endangered species. Her real motive was to protect oil revenues.
9 comments
Sign Petition: Save the Polar Bear
Animals  (tags: animals, polar bears, environment, greenhouse gas, obama, bush, salazar, palin, politics, government, habitat, species, endangered, climate change, wildlife, ocean, polar bears, whales, humans, global warming, arctic )

Tom
- 247 days ago - usactions.greenpeace.org
Congress just passed special legislation granting President Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar 60 days to revoke Bush's last minute regulations reducing protections for polar bears and exempting greenhouse gas emissions.
25 comments
Take Action: Urge the Obama Administration to Protect Whales From Bush's Final Salvo
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife, ocean, NOAA, whales, dolphins, obama, bush, salazar, government, navy, sonar, suffering, sadness, endangered, cruelty, death, habitat, protection, environment )

Tom
- 247 days ago - tinyurl.com
Tell President Obama to protect whales and dolphins from the Bush Administration's last-minute rules allowing the Navy to harass marine mammals with sonar more than 10 million times along the Eastern Seaboard, the Gulf of Mexico, California and Hawaii.
21 comments
 
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