Ocean Sentry
(From nytimes.com) Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia – The fierce appetite for live reef fish across Southeast Asia — and increasingly in mainland China — is devastating populations in the Coral Triangle, a protected marine region home to the world’s richest ocean diversity, according to a recent report in the scientific journal …
January, 2009
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20 January
Rescuer fears dolphins in N.J. rivers may have died
(From newsday.com) Trenton, NJ – The head of a marine mammal rescue group says he”s afraid the last five dolphins who have been staying in two Jersey shore rivers since June may be dead. Bob Schoelkopf, co-director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, says increasing ice in the …
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19 January
A ‘sad weekend for everyone concerned’ as seals, dolphins and porpoises wash ashore
(From thisiscornwall.co.uk) Cornwall, The weekend”s storms led to the bodies of at least ten seals, dolphins and porpoises being washed up on beaches around the Cornish coast. Volunteers from the Cornwall Wildlife Trust”s marine strandings network, which is the official recorder for all marine strandings in the county, were out …
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19 January
Shark Finning Protest Demonstration in San Francisco’s Chinatown
The Shark Safe Project is starting 2009 “The Year of the Shark” with a protest demonstration in San Francisco’s Chinatown on January 25th at noon. Please join us as we will be picketing several establishments including restaurants that serve shark fin soup and shark fin markets. This is intended to be …
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19 January
Meeting on bowhead whale harvest
(From nnsl.com) Nunavut, Canada – The Nunavut Wildlife Management Board will hold a public hearing in Iqaluit Feb. 10 to consider removing the limits on harvesting bowhead whales in Nunavut. Bowhead whales in Nunavut are listed as “threatened” according to the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada …
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19 January
Dolphin slave trader Chris Porter sells 11 more dolphins
(From cdnn.info) Honiara, Solomon Islands – Notorious dolphin slave trader Chris Porter shipped 11 more dolphins caught in the Solomon Islands. In a deal estimated to be worth at least $660,000, the dolphins were loaded aboard a cargo plane owned by Kuzu Airline Cargo, a Turkish company, and sent to …
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18 January
Australia lists world’s largest sea turtle as endangered
Australia on Sunday listed the world”s largest sea turtle, the leatherback, as endangered due to the threats posed by overfishing and the unsustainable harvesting of its eggs and meat. The leatherback turtle, previously listed only as vulnerable, was one of a group of plants and animals registered as endangered by …
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18 January
New study: Tainted salmon poisoning orcas
(From komonews.com) Vancouver, Bristish Columbia – Resident killer whales in Puget Sound and off the west coast of North America are being poisoned by eating salmon laced with toxic PCBs, according to a study on the dwindling orca population. Researchers in British Columbia found enough polychlorinated biphenols other man-made pollutants …
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18 January
Greens urge greater support for Sea Shepherd crew
(From abc.net.au) Hobart, Tasmania – The Australian Greens say the Federal Government is not doing enough for the anti-whaling ship the Steve Irwin, which had to abandon its pursuit of Japanese whalers to refuel. The ship arrived in Hobart yesterday afternoon to stock up on fuel and other supplies. Greens …
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17 January
Cold weather caused pelican deaths, officials say
A rash of brown pelican deaths and illnesses was probably caused by a severe mid-December storm in the Pacific Northwest, state wildlife officials believe. An estimated 400 birds turned up dead, injured or sick along the California coast beginning about Dec. 19. The episode has largely faded, state officials said. …
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17 January
No common ground at first polar bear summit
They gathered in the spirit of piliriqatigiingniq – Inuktitut for seeking a common goal – but panel members at the federal government”s first polar bear roundtable were hardly speaking with a single voice yesterday. At issue was the health of Canada”s 13 polar bear populations. On one side, researchers told …
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17 January
Mexico Works to Protect Endangered Sea of Cortez Porpoise
(From bajatimes.com) Mexico – Actions undertaken to persuade fishermen in Upper Gulf of California to give up fishing. Approximately 836 boats have given up fishing in favor of other activities. During the first two years of government, President Felipe Calderón`s administration assigned over $174 million pesos to promote actions to …