Ocean Sentry
If conservationists find a way to stop people from killing the critically endangered vaquita, the marine species might be able to bounce back on its own.
March, 2018
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29 March
Earlier snow crab season, ship speed limits announced to protect North Atlantic right whales
New measures to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, including an earlier start and end to the snow crab fishing season in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, fixed and temporary closures where whales are spotted, and an earlier speed restriction for ships in the western gulf have been announced.
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27 March
‘Beginning of the end?’ No new babies for endangered whales
The winter calving season for critically endangered right whales is ending without a single newborn being spotted off the southeast U.S. coast, a reproductive drought unseen for three decades that experts say brings the rare species a perilous step closer to extinction.
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26 March
The Trump administration might let the world’s rarest marine mammal go extinct
Last week, environmental groups took the Trump administration to task for failing to protect the vaquita porpoise, the world’s rarest (and perhaps cutest) marine mammal, from likely extinction.
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24 March
Greens appeal to European Commission over sea caves
The sea caves are the birthing spot of the Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus), which is listed as the most ‘critically endangered’ marine mammal species in the Mediterranean by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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23 March
More than 150 whales strand themselves on Western Australian beach
Only 15 short-finned pilot whales are alive after a mass stranding event which saw more than 150 of them stranded on the West Australian coast.
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23 March
Mission accomplished’: Trapped dolphins in Heart’s Delight rescued with community effort
Residents are cheering — and breathing a sigh of relief — now that a pod of dolphins trapped in a shallow harbour in Heart’s Delight have been freed from the ice that had pinned them close to shore.
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22 March
South Korea bans importation of Taiji’s dolphins
Dolphins caught in Taiji Japan’s notorious drive hunts will no longer be welcome in South Korea. Today, the Ministry of Environment announced a revised bill on the Protection and Management of Wildlife, banning all imports of dolphins captured in such a brutal manner.
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21 March
Attempt to rescue dolphins trapped by Newfoundland ice fails
A Canadian Coast Guard vessel was unable to help a group of dolphins trapped by ice in a Newfoundland harbour Tuesday.
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20 March
Five Hector’s dolphins die in fishing nets prompting acceleration of protection measures
The Government is considering extending the ban on commercial set nets after five Hector’s dolphins were killed in fishing nets last month.
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16 March
27 spinner dolphins washed ashore in a month
Carcasses of three spinner dolphins were found on the Alamparai Kuppam beach, around 100km from the city on Friday. With this, the number of dead spinner dolphins that washed ashore in the last one month has reached 27.
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15 March
Mass slaughther in the Solomons
Dolphin Project can confirm that on March 9th, over 500 pantropical spotted dolphins (Stenellaattenuatta) or unubulu* were slaughtered in the small village of Fanalei, Solomon Islands. In the largest single slaughter of dolphins in the Solomons since 2013, approximately 20 canoes carried around 30 hunters miles out in the open ocean in …