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Japan dolphin hunt goes on after slaughter: campaigners

Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)

Japanese fishermen were out at sea attempting to trap more dolphins on Wednesday, campaigners said, after the bloody slaughter of dozens of the animals the prev...

US envoy should visit Taiji to see dolphin hunt: official

Jan 21, 2014 (AFP)

The US ambassador to Japan should visit Taiji to see the "humane" killing methods used in the dolphin hunt, a local fisheries official said Tuesday, days after ...

Keeping whales safe in sound

Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)

A step-by-step guide to reducing impacts on whales and other marine species during seismic sea floor surveys has been developed by experts with IUCN's Western G...

Conservationists, big oil join forces to help whales

Jan 20, 2014 (AFP)

Conservationists have joined forces with a company working on one of the world's largest oil and gas projects to help limit the impact of seismic surveys on end...

US envoy Kennedy tweets concern at Japanese dolphin hunt

Jan 19, 2014 (AFP)

US ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy has tweeted her concern at the "inhumaneness" of a Japanese village's traditional dolphin hunt. "Deeply concerned by inh...

Japanese fishermen capture dolphins ahead of slaughter

Jan 18, 2014 (AFP)

Fishermen and divers caught at least 25 dolphins in a controversial Japanese fishing village Saturday, according to environmentalists, who said the process was ...

Environmentalists pleased over whale beer ban

Jan 15, 2014 (AFP)

Environmentalists on Wednesday welcomed a decision by Icelandic authorities to ban a local beer containing whale meal. The controversial beer was the result of ...

Mass whale stranding on New Zealand coast

Jan 14, 2014 (AFP)

At least 13 pilot whales were beached Tuesday on a remote New Zealand coastline and conservation officials were desperately battling to prevent another 50 from ...

Sperm whale body stuns, draws crowd in Uruguay

Jan 12, 2014 (AFP)

Authorities in Uruguay on Sunday recovered the body of a 16-meter sperm whale, normally at home in deep waters, after it beached near the capital. Using a crane...

'Exceptionally rare' conjoined whales found in Mexico

Jan 07, 2014 (AFP)

Fishermen have found two conjoined gray whale calves in a northwestern Mexican lagoon, a discovery that a government marine biologist described as "exceptionall...

Japan whalers driven from hunting ground: Sea Shepherd

Jan 07, 2014 (AFP)

Anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd on Tuesday said Japan's fleet had been separated and driven out of its Antarctic hunting ground, declaring an early success ...

Sea Shepherd catches Japanese fleet, four whales dead

Jan 06, 2014 (AFP)

Militant anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd said they had zeroed in on a Japanese fleet Monday and captured evidence that four whales had been slaughtered, all...

Anti-whalers dismiss 'sham' Australian surveillance

Dec 23, 2013 (AFP)

Militant anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd on Monday dismissed as a "sham" Australian government plans to track Japan's annual whale hunt by air instead of by sea...

Australia to monitor Japanese whalers as conflict looms

Dec 22, 2013 (AFP)

Australia will send a government jet to conduct aerial surveillance of the Southern Ocean as an annual showdown brews between Japanese whalers and militant cons...

Sea Shepherd departs on high-seas Japan whale campaign

Dec 18, 2013 (AFP)

Sea Shepherd campaigners left for their tenth annual campaign to prevent Japan's slaughter of whales in the Southern Ocean on Wednesday, with three vessels depa...

Sea Shepherd ready for aggression from Japan whalers

Dec 16, 2013 (AFP)

Conservation group Sea Shepherd Australia said Monday it was preparing for increased aggression from Japanese whalers in its annual campaign to stop the slaught...

Iceland ups 2014 whaling quotas

Dec 13, 2013 (AFP)

Iceland announced Friday it has increased its 2014 quotas for whaling in a move likely to intensify international condemnation of the practice. The country's fi...

New study identifies five distinct humpback whale populations in North Pacific

Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)

The first comprehensive genetic study of humpback whale populations in the North Pacific Ocean has identified five distinct populations - at the same time a pro...

Rescuers to suspend search for stranded whales

Dec 08, 2013 (AFP)

Rescuers involved in the search for 40 pilot whales still stranded in Florida said they will suspend their operations Sunday after failing to spot the animals v...

Japan whaling ships leave for Antarctic hunt

Dec 07, 2013 (AFP)

Two Japanese whaling ships and a surveillance vessel left Saturday for the annual hunt in the Antarctic Sea, Kyodo News said. The three ships departed from the ...