Tag: whales

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Penguins at most risk off South Africa after predator whales seize the area

  

  A study released this week in the peer-reviewed African Journal of Marine Science, would show that killer orcas are behind the finding of eight white sharks dead off the coast of Gansbaai, in western South Africa in 2017.

• Monday, February 21st 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  Happy World Whale Day! But the magnificent creatures are threatened y oceans toxic pollution

  

  Happy World Whale Day! Giants of the ocean are celebrated on World Whale Day, 20 February, which aims to raise awareness of these magnificent creatures, their beauty as well as their ecological value to the planet.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  Iceland to end commercial whaling by 2024 and plans to further promote whales' sightseeing

  

  Iceland will end commercial whaling by 2024, announced Fisheries minister Svandis Svavarsdottir in a piece published in the Reykjavik daily Morgunbladid. The lawmaker representing the ruling coalition led by the Left Greens said, “there are few justifications to authorize the whale hunt beyond 2024,” adding “there is little proof that there is any economic advantage to this activity”.

• Saturday, February 20th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Some 45 pilot whales stranded on an Indonesian beach: three survive

  

  Regional officials on the northeastern Indonesian island of Madura said on Friday at least 45 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach there have died, while rescuers managed to push three back out to sea.

• Friday, September 25th 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Grim experience for Australian authorities, euthanizing and disposing of some 400 whale carcasses

  

  Australian officials were focusing on the grim task of disposing of almost 400 whale carcasses on Thursday, while attempts to rescue the few remaining survivors of one of the world’s worst mass strandings were expected to extend another day.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 07:30 UTC

  South Georgia is evidence of whales recovery, a century after they were heavily exploited

  

  A team led by the British Antarctic Survey has just returned from the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, as the last of three expeditions to investigate the recovery of whales a century after they were heavily exploited. After 30 years of protection, large numbers of whales appear to be returning to the region.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  New Zealanders rush to try and save a pod of stranded whales

  

  About 1,000 people rushed to a New Zealand beach over the weekend to try to save a pod of whales that stranded overnight, overwhelming conservation workers who were appealing for specialist assistance.

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 10:24 UTC

  All whales released, secretly, from Russia's Far East “whale jail”, Moscow reports

  

  The last whales held in a notorious facility dubbed the “whale jail” in Russia's Far East were released on Sunday, the institute overseeing the operation said.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  BAS technique to detect stranded whales from space

  

  A new technique for analyzing satellite images may help scientists detect and count stranded whales from space. Researchers tested a new detection method using Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite images from Maxar Technologies of the biggest mass stranding of baleen whales yet recorded.  It is hoped that in the future the technique will lead to real-time information as stranding events happen.

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Arctic buoy with yearlong Beluga recordings salvaged by Swedish icebreaker

  

  A year-long recording of the high-pitched clicks made by Beluga whales has been salvaged from the Arctic after the crew of a Swedish icebreaker chanced upon a research buoy adrift in hazardous pack ice.