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French marine park closes over law banning killer whale shows
Jan 05, 2025 (AFP)
The closure of the park was marked by a final show by its two orcas, Wikie and Keijo who were received with rapturous applause by crowds who came for its last d...
Bereaved orca seen carrying another dead calf in US waters
Jan 03, 2025 (AFP)
Scientists say whales are among the world's most intelligent animals, exhibiting complex social behavior including self-awareness and suffering. The Washington ...
Freed activist Paul Watson vows to 'end whaling worldwide'
Dec 21, 2024 (AFP)
Watson, a 74-year-old Canadian-American, returned to France on Friday after spending five months in detention in the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland du...
Freed anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson arrives in France
Dec 20, 2024 (AFP)
Watson, a 74-year-old Canadian-American, was released on Tuesday after Denmark refused the Japanese extradition request over a 2010 clash with whalers. He was r...
Paul Watson: eco-warrior on the high seas
Dec 17, 2024 (AFP)
For years a bete noire of Japan, one of the last three countries along with Iceland and Norway to practise commercial whale hunting, Watson was arrested on July...
Iceland authorises whale hunting until 2029
Dec 05, 2024 (AFP)
The decision was denounced by animal rights activists and environmental groups, who criticised the fact that it had been taken by a caretaker government. The pe...
French marine park to close over law banning killer whale shows
Dec 04, 2024 (AFP)
Animal activists have been angered by Marineland's plans to transfer its two killer whales to Japan, a move France's ecology minister said she opposed over Toky...
Unique Orca whale pod adopts specialized techniques to hunt whale sharks
Dec 03, 2024 (SPX)
Whale sharks frequent aggregation sites in the Gulf of California, especially in their younger and smaller stages, making them more susceptible to predators. An...
New Zealand scientists dissect world's rarest whale
Dec 02, 2024 (AFP)
The dead spade-toothed whale washed ashore on New Zealand's South Island earlier this year, offering a chance to study a deep-sea mammal that has never been see...
Researchers paint a global picture of whale-ship collision risk
Nov 22, 2024 (SPX)
In a University of Washington-led paper published in the journal Science, UC Santa Barbara researchers add some clarity to that picture and it's sobering: Globa...
Kazakhstan reports 2,000 deaths of rare seal in a month
Nov 20, 2024 (AFP)
The Central Asian country has reported sporadic mass deaths of the seals -- the only mammals to live in the Caspian Sea, which is the world's biggest inland bod...
One population or many Antarctic blue whales examined in new study
Nov 16, 2024 (SPX)
Researchers continue to investigate whether the population is rebounding and whether it consists of one unified group or distinct subpopulations - an essential ...
Mass death of rare seals reported in Caspian Sea
Nov 07, 2024 (AFP)
Caspian seals are the only mammals in the world's biggest inland body of water, which has seen an alarming drop in water levels and rising temperatures that thr...
New Techniques Enhance Autonomous Whale Tracking and Rendezvous
Nov 01, 2024 (SPX)
Led by Stephanie Gil, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a team from Project CETI ...
Alien poo or whale boogers? Globs on Canadian shores stump scientists
Oct 26, 2024 (AFP)
The slimy, spongy globs as big as dinner plates were discovered by beachcombers in early September scattered over the pebbly beaches of Placentia Bay on the isl...
Dolphins react to military sonar at much lower levels than expected
Oct 24, 2024 (SPX)
In a study published on October 23 in Royal Society Open Science, the international research team observed 34 dolphin groups, involving thousands of individuals...
Anti-whaling activist Watson requests French nationality
Oct 24, 2024 (AFP)
Watson, who had been living in France until his July 21 arrest, filed the request on Wednesday, said Tamalet, who coordinates the 73-year-old's defence team. Th...
Critically endangered whale species rebounds slightly
Oct 22, 2024 (AFP)
The number of North Atlantic right whales rose to 373 in 2023, up four percent from a recent low of 358 individuals in 2020, according to the latest estimates b...
Plan to overturn commercial whaling moratorium sinks in Peru
Sep 27, 2024 (AFP)
Another proposal to declare whaling a source of global food security was also abandoned in a plenary session after failing to gain consensus among delegates fro...
In French Polynesia, boom in whale-based tourism sparks concern
Sep 18, 2024 (AFP)
It is for spectacular scenes like this that many tourists travel each year to French Polynesia, one of the world's prime destinations to go whale-watching and e...
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