May 2012
103 posts
Memo from Earth Island to Dolphin Safe Tuna...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines “1. We would welcome Pacifical as a Dolphin Safe company at the point that the company executes a Dolphin Safe policy with Earth Island Institute on the same terms that all other Dolphin Safe companies must meet. To do otherwise would be unfair to the more than 400 companies around the world that fully comply with our program. Pacifical...
S.O.S (Save Our Sharks): Fin Free BC!
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Gabriel Wildgen of Humane Society International/Canada has been campaigning on a shark fin ban in Port Moody and now hopes it spreads to other Metro Vancouver municipalities. He is photographed in … See on oscarcares.blogspot.fr
Success in Chile: WSPA supporters help save 300...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines WSPA, along with local partner Ecoceanos, are celebrating a success in our SOS Sea Lions Chile campaign, with 300 sea lions saved from needless slaughter. See on wspa-usa.org
Whale Meat Doesn't Sell: The ICR Reports Miserable...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines 900 tons, an astonishing 3/4 of JARPN II meat, is left unsold from the auction. Nisshin-Maru returns from Antarctica (whose “mission was cut short by SS”) bringing back over 1000 tons. Now with the whale meat silently mounting in their warehouses, the future of the ICR is uncertain… See on ika-net.jp
A whale of a discovery: New sensory organ found in...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines A new sensory organ, found within the chin of rorqual whales, is responsible for coordinating the biomechanics of their extreme lunge-feeding strategy. Left, a fin whale after lunging; right, anatomy of the new sensory organ. See on sierraactivist.org
New Zealand hopes to end whaling deadlock
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines New Zealand’s foreign minister voiced hope yesterday that Japan would find a way to compromise in coming years on whaling, despite a long and bitter deadlock in international negotiations. See on metronewspaper.co.za
Whale meeting heads for discord : Marine and Ocean...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Ocean Conservation and Scuba Diving News from all around the world… See on earthdive.com
Concerns raised on Navy sonar permit |...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The US Navy wants to renew a five-year permit that could potentially injure or even kill marine mammals such as whales while using sonar and explosives during training off Cape Cod. See on capecodonline.com
Critically endangered Yangtze River Finless...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The recent deaths of Yangtze River finless porpoises have prompted calls for urgent protection measures. See on gbtimes.com
Op-Ed: Pilot whale 'Sully' dies at SeaWorld San...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Animal Ambassador for SeaWorld, Busch Gardens and Discovery Cove – Julie Scardina, is reporting that Sully the pilot whale died at the San Diego facility on May 23. Sully had several health issues, sunburn was one of them. See on digitaljournal.com
Birmingham home to world's first vegetarian shark?...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Read the latest Central stories, Birmingham home to world’s first vegetarian shark? See on itv.com
wildsingapore news: Taking a bite out of the...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines PHUKET: The disturbing discovery by a Phuket News reader of the selling of endangered hammerhead sharks in Kata market has been exasperated by the shocking realisation that the practice is not ‘technically’ illegal. See on wildsingaporenews.blogspot.fr
"Japanese Ships to Kill 260 Whales in Name of...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Commercial whaling is banned under international treaty but, since 1987, Japan has been taking advantage of a loophole under which it is possible to conduct lethal research in the name of science. For this reason, two Japanese whaling ships, the Yushin Maru and Yushin Maru No 2, left the Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi, western Japan, to join the...
Anti-whaling leader Watson suspects Japan was...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Militant environmental group Sea Shepherd leader Paul Watson on Tuesday suggested Japan was involved in his recent arrest in Germany,…… See on japantoday.com
STOP dolphin captivity in Egypt - The Petition...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The existence of dolphinaria is detrimental to the welfare of dolphins and causes harm and death to them through capture (10248 signatures on petition)… See on thepetitionsite.com
STOP dolphin captivity in Egypt - The Petition...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The existence of dolphinaria is detrimental to the welfare of dolphins and causes harm and death to them through capture (10248 signatures on petition)… See on thepetitionsite.com
Newborn Beluga Whale Struggles To Survive At...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines A newborn beluga calf is in critical condition at the Georgia Aquarium after its birth on Friday morning. See on www2.nbc26.tv
Phuket NEWS: Dolphin blood-test results reveal...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Blood tests revealed that the stranded striped dolphin rescued from Kata Beach, has a serious infection and only a 10 to 30 percent chance of survival… See on phuketgazette.net
US Dolphin Safe Tuna Label 'Unfair' to Mexico,...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The WTO ruled yesterday that United States’ “Dolphin Safe tuna-labeling regulations unfairly discriminates against Mexico. See on care2.com
Eyes on Trade: Analysis: today's WTO ruling bad...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines We’ve waded our way through today’s 165-page, 771-footnote WTO ruling against dolphin-safe labels. Here’s a quick guide to what it says and means. See on citizen.typepad.com
What Killed Orca Victoria? Some Point To Naval...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The U.S. Navy is in the process of renewing its permits to conduct sonar and explosive tests off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. See on gpb.org
Mass dolphin deaths in Peru caused by acoustic...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Dr. Carlos Yaipen Llanos of ORCA in Peru informed Hardy Jones of Blue Voice that acoustical trauma is the cause of the Mass Mortality Event (MME) that killed an estimated one thousand dolphins along the coast of northern Peru in March 2012. See on digitaljournal.com
Human-dolphin communication is one step closer:...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The new gadget will allow marine scientists to reproduce the full range of dolphin sounds, including clicks, whistles and burst pulses well outside of the range of human hearing. See on dailymail.co.uk
Necropsy results show dolphin died of bacterial...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The 15-year-old bottlenose dolphin was found dead early April 14, on the bottom of a tank… See on caller.com
Report warns Solomons dolphin exports...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The Solomons’ decision to continue exports of 50 live dolphins each year has been met with controversy. A report by the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium, presented in Honiara, says that level of export is way beyond what the population can sustai See on radioaustralia.net.au
Navy Admits Greater Harm To Sea Mammals
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Last week, the U.S. Navy came out with a shocking confession. They now admit that their coastal training exercises kill or harm more marine mammals than previously acknowledged. See on earthjustice.org
“The problem of poaching is the government’s...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The majority of them are Azov dolphins, a relatively smaller ones, but the Black Sea bottle-nose (Aphalina) dolphins are found as well. Both kinds are represented in the Black Sea only. Crimean scientists state that this phenomenon is quite wide-spread and it threatens the existence of the marine mammals. This was the topic of our conversation...
Naval activity imperils whales
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Fred Felleman, Friends of the Earth’s Northwest consultant, stood on the dock in Everett, WA, this past February capturing evidence of the U.S. Navy’s active sonar use with a hydrophone. See on foe.org
Phuket Embraces a Dolphin Suffering in Phuket's...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Latest A young dolphin was plucked from the sea at Kata beach and is now being treated at Phuket Marine Biology Centre. Dolphins sometimes swim into trouble during the monsoon season. See on phuketwan.com
Melting Sea Ice Could Lead to Pressure on Arctic...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines With melting sea ice opening up previously inaccessible parts of the Arctic Ocean, the fishing industry sees a potential bonanza. But some scientists and government officials have begun calling for a moratorium on fishing in the region until the true state of the Arctic fishery is assessed. See on worldgreen.org
Rare, blue coral found
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Reef Tank Feature Articles Reefs In The News regarding Rare, blue coral found (CR - Rare, blue coral found: Most hard corals in Fiji and the world are colorful on the outside but when cracked open http://t.co/2tUzxAQr...)… See on captivereefs.com
Corals — the oldest Creatures on the Earth
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines «The rainforests of the ocean», coral reefs are the most beautiful of all marine habitats. Corals are large colonies of tiny animals that grow slowly and leave behind a layer of limy skeleton which is so tough it almost feels like … See on viola.bz
Rare Nudibranch Sighting with Dive Grenada
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Scuba Diving with Dive Grenada produced a very rare Nudibranch called Flabellina Dushia recently. This very beautiful and rare creature was found on one of our very popular shipwrecks in Grenada called the Veronica L. See on divegrenada.blogspot.fr
Sea Shepherd :: Germany Considers Sending Whale...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Sea Shepherd Conservation Society - Protecting oceans around the world (RT @riottamat: Help my friend Captain Paul Watson. What’s happening to him is terrible. Please retweet and share! See on seashepherd.org
Japan to catch 260 whales in research whaling in...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The Institute of Cetacean Research plans to catch 100 minke whales, 100 sei whales, 50 Bryde’s whales and 10 sperm whales in the 19th annual whaling program in the waters to check their diet and their sizes and sell their meat to earn funds for the research, the agency. See on mainichi.jp
Another Whale Freed Along The Coast
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines It has happened again.The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, the Coast Guard and the Marine Fisheries Services worked together Monday afternoon… See on ksro.com
Council asked to help save dolphins.
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Among the less traditional submissions to the council’s Long Term Plan are about 20 from the United States and throughout New Zealand, asking the council to take steps to help protect maui and hector’s dolphins. See on stuff.co.nz
'Rust and Bone' to open at Cannes Film Festival
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The film is an adaptation of ‘Rocket Ride,’ one of the stories found within Craig Davidson’s 2005 short-story anthology, also titled ‘Rust and Bones’. In the story a young man loses his leg to the orca he performs with. See on www2.wdcs.org
Lawsuit Filed to Protect Endangered Beluga Whales...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales are threatened by oil drilling and exploration, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Native Village of Chickaloon, Center for Water Advocacy and Center for Biological Diversity. The suit challenges a permit issued by the National Marine Fisheries...
Navy study: Sonar, blasts might hurt more sea life
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The US Navy may hurt more dolphins and whales by using sonar and explosives in Hawaii and California than previous studies. See on 3news.co.nz
Release Captain Paul Watson - The Petition Site
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines We only have hours to Free Paul Watson! If the Minister of Justice does not intervene before tomorrow,… See on thepetitionsite.com
‘The Ocean of Life’—And the Sorrow Beneath the Sea
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Imagine an underwater world without whales, sharks, and dolphins, where jellyfish and algae rule. It’s already happening, says marine biologist Callum Roberts in his new books, The Ocean of Life. See on thedailybeast.com
Paul Watson arrested :: Wetpixel.com
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Paul Watson, founder of the environmental organization Sea Shepherd, was arrested at Frankfurt Airport, Germany on 12 May, pending extradition to Costa Rica. This was carried out due to a warrant that had been issued in … See on wetpixel.com
Japan 'Cove' town plans dolphin park
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines The dolphin-hunting Japanese town of Taiji, made infamous by the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove”, plans to open a marine mammal park where visitors can swim with the creatures, a media report said. See on montrealgazette.com
The first cetacean Lake to start building in...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines home of the Chinese white dolphins in the vastness of the sea, but the near future, they set fire to Lantau can have another warm home. The first cetacean Lake has been on the island quietly construction, planned to be completed by the end of August this year, and to greet the arrival of the first batch of Chinese White Dolphins. See on...
A Rough Toothed Dolphin Rescue in Taiwan
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines “The Miaoli Tunghsiao found off the coast dolphin strandings, the Coast Guard team arrived at the scene found to be a “rough-toothed dolphins, 220 cm long, weighing 300 kg, in good health, but because of the high tide, can not with a human dolphin pushed back into the sea, and finally to the fishermen borrowed a rubber...
Wrecked ship spilling oil in Antarctica - World -...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines A wrecked Brazilian ship is trapped in ice and spilling fuel in Antarctica, with no hopes of containing the damage until the long South Pole winter eases in October. See on nzherald.co.nz
HSI senior scientist: MMPA benefits captive marine...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines When the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) was amended in 1994, it had significant ramifications for captive marine mammals. Digital Journal spoke with Humane Society International’s Senior Scientist – Naomi Rose, to find out what changed. See on digitaljournal.com
Shell Clears Wildlife Hurdle, One Step Closer to...
See on Scoop.it - Earth Island Institute Philippines Royal Dutch Shell is one step closure to drilling in the Arctic this summer after securing a permit from the National Marine Fisheries Service, proving to federal regulators that its operations will not harm whales and seals. See on gcaptain.com
