Tag: whales

• 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.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2014 - 07:46 UTC

  A 25-ton dead sperm whale finally removed from a Montevideo beach

  

  The remains of a sperm whale that washed ashore in one of Montevideo's beaches were finally hauled in a truck for burial in a municipal dump where a huge hole was drilled for the 16 meters long cetacean.

• Wednesday, February 27th 2013 - 05:44 UTC

  Fisheries minister says Japan will never stop hunting whales “it’s part of our culture”

  

  Japan's fisheries minister said Tuesday his country will never stop hunting whales, despite fierce criticism from other nations and violent clashes at sea with militant conservationists.

• Thursday, February 14th 2013 - 20:46 UTC

  Pod of pilot whales found dead after stranding in the east coast of the Falklands

  

  Falklands Conservation confirmed the stranding of long-finned pilot whales including the death of 22 adults on the east coast of East Falkland at Pleasand Roads, half way between Stanley and Mare Harbour.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2012 - 20:56 UTC

  NZ scientists in world first discovery of the elusive spade-toothed beaked whale

  

  New Zealand scientists have made a world first discovery when they identified two skeletons belonging to the spade-toothed beaked whale, which is so rare that nobody has seen one alive. A 17-foot whale mother and her calf beached themselves in New Zealand in 2010 and were buried misidentified for a much more common type of whale that occasionally strands on NZ beaches.

• Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 03:33 UTC

  Protecting the whales from aggressive scavenger seagulls in Puerto Madryn

  

  Saving the whales is something Argentines take so seriously that authorities are planning to shoot seagulls that have developed a habit of attacking the huge marine mammals. But environmentalists say the plan is misguided because humans are the real problem, creating so much garbage that the seagull population has exploded, endangering the whales.

• Monday, July 23rd 2012 - 04:22 UTC

  Scientists discover whales learn to protect their ears from loud noise

  

  Scientists have long known that man-made, underwater noises — from engines, sonar, weapons testing, and such industrial tools as air guns used in oil and gas exploration — are deafening whales and other sea mammals.

• Tuesday, July 3rd 2012 - 00:50 UTC

  Japan and allies thwart South Atlantic Whale sanctuary at the IWC

  

  By a vote of 38 in favour to 21 opposed, the South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary (SAWS) failed to meet the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) required 3/4 majority to pass and be established.

• Thursday, June 28th 2012 - 21:23 UTC

  Greenpeace asks IWC for historic whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic

  

  Greenpeace and a vast coalition of environmental groups are calling on the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to establish a sanctuary in the South Atlantic Ocean that would protect Southern Hemisphere whales from commercial whaling for their entire lives.

• Friday, June 8th 2012 - 23:18 UTC

  Environmentalists propose a whales’ sanctuary ring along the American continent

  

  Environment organizations meeting in Panama will demand the creation of a whales’ sanctuary in the south Atlantic and south Pacific, at the coming meeting of the International Whaling Commission.