News

August, 2008

• 29 August

  Pygmy Sperm Whale found

  

  (From sanpedrosun.net)- The nine foot, 600 pound adult whale was found about 4:50 p.m. on Sunday evening languishing in the surf some fifteen miles east of San Pedro Town. The mammal had bluish-black skin, a roundish head and an under-slung lower jaw that seemed too small for its body. Sometime …
• 29 August

  Sharks found trapped in illegal gill net

  

  (From kitv.com) Honolulu- A Nature Conservancy team on patrol around Kaneohe Bay found an illegal gill with more than a dozen dead hammerhead sharks. The net was about 350 feet long and in the water for more than a day, Nature Conservancy representative Ken Conklin said.The net appeared to have …
• 29 August

  ‘Pirate For The Sea’ Looks At A Man Few Can Be

  

  “I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals — and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If …
• 29 August

  Veggies in talk of sea life protection

  

  (From redorbit.com) – Redditch vegetarians and vegans are hosting a talk about protecting sea life. Next Wednesday, a speaker from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will explain how the group is trying to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world”s oceans.
• 28 August

  Canada’s lame excuses for cruel seal hunt

  (From international.sp.nl)- Members of the European Parliament received this week in their post a lobbying document from the Canadian government. The Canadians are unhappy about the Netherlands” desire to see an import ban on seal products. SP Euro-MP Kartika Liotard has been at the forefront of campaigning in the European …
• 28 August

  Stranded porpoise sent to ancouver Rescue facility

  (From canada.com)- Staff and volunteers at Vancouver Aquarium”s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre are spending 24 hours a day in the water with a baby harbour porpoise, found stranded in Victoria two days ago, in a desperate attempt to save her life.“She can”t swim without support so she has people in …
• 28 August

  Australia leases ship to Japan

  

  (From news.com.au) Australia – The Federal Government has been accused of undermining Australia”s campaign against whaling by leasing a supply vessel to the Japanese Government. The Japanese Institute of Polar Research has hired the Aurora Australis to resupply its Antarctic base and to conduct marine science.
• 28 August

  Dozens Of Massacred Narwhals Found On Greenland Coast

  

  (From afp.google.com) Copenhagen- Dozens of massacred narwhals, an Arctic whale with a single long tusk, have been discovered on the east coast of Greenland in what local police said Thursday could be a case of poaching. “We received a complaint that there may have been a possible violation of the …
• 28 August

  Endangered turtles get support in Cyprus

  

  (From in.reuters.com) Lara Bay, Cyprus- Before Cypriots Andreas Demetropoulos and Myroula Hadjichristophorou pioneered turtle conservation in the Mediterranean in 1978, populations of the green turtles had collapsed, hunted to the brink of extinction. Still working the Cypriot beaches thirty years on, they can take credit for boosting the on-land survival …
• 28 August

  Rising sea levels threaten Puffins

  

  (From thenorthernecho.co.uk)- The Farne Islands have been identified as being among ten coastal landmarks owned by the National Trust which could suffer because of erosion and rising sea levels.Twenty species of seabirds breed there, including 55,674 pairs of puffins, and a colony of grey seals uses the islands as pupping …
• 28 August

  Saving the loggerheads

  

  (From heraldonline.com)- Workers with the Sea Turtle Protection Project on Hilton Head Island have discovered 199 nests. That is the second-largest nesting season since 1985, the year the project began. But the hatching of thousands of turtles doesn”t guarantee high survival, even with a helping hand from concerned humans. Their …
• 28 August

  Sea Lion euthanized after being rescued from South San Francisco Canal

  

  (From mercurynews.com)- A 235-pound adult California sea lion that trapped itself in a South San Francisco canal Monday was euthanized this morning after the animal was found to have brain damage from toxic algae exposure, animal officials said.The sea lion was suffering severe seizures and was soon diagnosed with domoic …