Tag: Peninsula Valdes

• Friday, December 29th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  When FIC tried to buy Peninsula Valdes and land in Tierra del Fuego

  

  The history section of daily “Diario del Fin del Mundo”, edited in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province, extreme south of Argentina, recalls that almost a century and a half ago, more precisely December 1881, the Falkland Islands Company, FIC, “at the time with total control over the Falklands economy”, approached the Argentine government offering to buy the total of Peninsula Valdes, Chubut province and an area in Tierra del Fuego next to San Sebastian Bay, and its surrounding 160 leguas (league) for the rearing of sheep.

• Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentine scientists studying death of Southern right whales on the Patagonia coast

  

  Members of Argentina's INIDEP, the Fisheries Research and Development Institute, are working in Puerto Madryn to determine the cause of the sudden increase in the death of the Southern right whale, with dead corpses along the coast of the Valdes Peninsula, a mating and rest place for the migrating cetaceans.

• Friday, October 23rd 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Scientists found plastic debris in the digestive track of southern right whale stranded in Argentina

  

  Scientists found plastic debris in the digestive tract of a southern right whale stranded in Argentina, according to a study from the Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program, co-led by the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine; and Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas in Argentina.

• Thursday, February 13th 2014 - 02:05 UTC

  Satellite test counting of whales in Argentina's Peninsula Valdez and Golfo Nuevo

  

  Scientists have demonstrated a new method for counting whales from space. It uses very high-resolution satellite pictures and image-processing software to automatically detect the great mammals at or near the ocean surface.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2013 - 07:52 UTC

  Record death of whales and calves in Patagonia; scientists investigating

  

  Southern Right Whales are dying off at a record rate in Argentina's Patagonia region, a conservation group warned.