Month: June 2014

Adios, Pacific Garbage Patch: This Teenager’s Invention Could Clean It Up A new report shows how the 19-year-old’s gigantic cleanup machine can pick up half the North Pacific’s trash. Take Action (Photo: The Ocean Cleanup/Facebook) June 12, 2014 By Kristina Bravo Kristina Bravo is a Los Angeles–based writer. She is a fellow at TakePart. full...

Sea Shepherd to Deploy Drones to Stop Massive Whale Slaughter The group’s air force will livestream video of the Faeroe Islands killing grounds. (Photo: Andrija Ilic/Reuters) June 11, 2014 By David Kirby David Kirby has been a professional journalist for 25 years. His third book, Death at Seaworld, was published in 2012. full bio follow...

In January 2002, when she was just a calf, a killer whale named Springer was discovered emaciated and alone by a ferry dock in Puget Sound near Seattle. It was later determined that her mother must have died, leaving the orphaned orca to fend for herself at an age when most calves are still reliant...

Researchers dive into dugong heath project in Queensland’s Moreton Bay By Russell Varley Updated 4 hours 23 minutes ago Photo: Dugong feeds on seagrass in Moreton Bay. (South-east Queensland Catchments – file image) Map: Cape Moreton 4025 A marine researcher on Queensland’s Gold Coast says conditions for dugongs in Moreton Bay have improved after the...

JAPAN SEEKS TO IGNORE ICJ RULING AGAINST WHALING. Japan’s prime minister told parliament on Monday he would boost his efforts toward restarting commercial whaling, despite a top UN court’s order that Tokyo must stop killing whales in the Antarctic. Shinzo Abe’s comments put him firmly on a collision course with anti-whaling groups, who had hoped...

Whale Poo Sustains Fish Stocks Featured Research June 6, 2014 Although it has been argued that whales might be responsible for the depletion of fish stocks through predation, scientists have shown that their defecation in fact provides nutrients for other prey fish.2h AsianScientist (Jun 6, 2014) – Far from being a threat to fisheries, new...

Japanese tourism operators to promote whale and dolphin watching as alternative to whaling by Tom Maddocks and wires Updated Fri 6 Jun 2014, 11:03am AEST Photo: The new head of the Japan Whale Dolphin Council Kotoe Sasamori at the first meeting of the group in Tokyo. (AFP: Yoshikazu Tsuno) Map: Japan Tourism operators in Japan...

This report comes from our friends in the Buenos Aires Group From 12 to 24 May the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) met in Bled, Slovenia. This is the only IWC Committee that meets annually after the Commission agreed to in 2012 to conduct their plenary assemblies every two years, showing the...