The Department of Conservation is appealing for information after a critically endangered sea lion was shot dead on a Catlins beach in Southland.
September, 2017
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19 September
Sea lion dies after being tied to a tree in someone’s garden
Vets in Ecuador rescued the animal from a garden in Daule – but he died in their care a day later.
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19 September
Whale drags fishing trap more than 1,700km from Tasmania to Port Macquarie, then dies
A humpback whale, which died on a NSW mid-north coast beach, had dragged a fishing trap and ropes more than 1,700 kilometres before it met its end.
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19 September
Activist urges walrus rafts in absence of Arctic sea ice
An environmental activist is calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider placing anchored rafts in the ocean as resting platforms for walruses after stampedes killed 64 animals on Alaska’s northwest coast.
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18 September
Walruses on packed Alaska beach may have died in a stampede
64 dead walruses, most under a year old, were found Monday near village of Point Lay.
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16 September
Another North Atlantic right whale found dead in Gulf of St. Lawrence
Eleven right whales have died since June off the coast of New Brunswick, an unprecedented number of deaths for the endangered marine mammal.
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15 September
Invasive medical research conducted on Navy bottlenose dolphins
Many people are aware the U.S. Navy keeps bottlenose dolphins in San Diego Bay for military purposes. However, not everybody realizes these same dolphins frequently are used for medical research, some of it quite invasive.
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13 September
Heartbreaking video of Lolita in Miami Seaquarium after hurricane Irma shows why these animals shouldn’t be kept in captivity
When Hurricane Irma set Florida in its sight, Governor Rick Scott warned 5.6 million Floridians to evacuate. When the Category 3 storm slammed down on the sunshine state, people flocked to safety whether it be a shelter, basement, or a closet.
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9 September
Distressing scenes as seals hurl themselves off cliffs and smash into rocks as they desperately flee tourists
This disturbing footage shows a colony of panicked seals flinging themselves off a cliff edge after being startled by tourists.
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6 September
Pilot whale pod decimated in Taiji’s dolphin hunts
After three days of being held against their will in the shallow waters of the cove, with no access to food or water, and suffering from multiple injuries, the pilot whales’ torment was palpable.
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4 September
Pilot whales await slaughter or captivity: the selection process will begin again tomorrow
This early morning, Cove Monitors with The Dophin Project have reported six pilot whales violently slaugthered while trainers under the traps chose three juveniles so far for captivity.
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3 September
32 Pilot whales in the death corridor in the notorious cove of Taiji
This morning, the Japanese dolphin fishermen drove about 32 pilot whales into the Cove. According to Dolphin Project volunteers, the only group on the ground in Taiji after Sea Shepherd’s permanent withdrawal due to fears to be jailed, the pod was driven into the cove after six hours at sea.