Tag: whales

• Saturday, May 12th 2012 - 09:14 UTC

  Sightings of blue whales in the south of Chile has grown significantly

  

  The number of blue whales sighted in the south of Chile increased significantly this austral summer as the cetacean approached the area to feed on the rich waters of the south Pacific according to a scientific report from the Austral University Blue Whale Centre released this week.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:34 UTC

  Extremely rare beaked whales filmed for the first time ever in Australian waters

  

  Australian researchers on Thursday revealed they had filmed a pod of extremely rare Shepherd's beaked whales for the first time ever.The Australian Antarctic Division team was tracking blue whales off the coast of Victoria state in January when they spotted the reclusive mammals, which are so rarely seen that no population estimates of the species exist.

• Saturday, October 1st 2011 - 01:02 UTC

  Young whale dies beached 800 meters inland from the British east coast

  

  A young whale which died after it beached in the Humber Estuary is probably of a species rarely found stranded on the east British coast, conservationists have said.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 11:24 UTC

  Bowhead whales from Greenland and Alaska mingle along the Arctic passage

  

  Bowhead whales, the giants of the Arctic, are using the Northwest Passage to move across the top of the Americas. Skeletons, DNA samples and harpoon heads have all suggested that bowhead populations living on each side of the continent did meet and mingle.

• Monday, July 18th 2011 - 10:04 UTC

  Animal rights organizations claim Japan is corrupting the Whaling Commission

  

  Animal rights organizations claim Japan has been handing out generous grants to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to support turning the International Whaling Commission into a “toothless paper tiger” undermining the whaling-moratorium.

• Friday, July 15th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Attempt to create South Atlantic whale sanctuary rejected in IWC meeting

  

  International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting closed after a tense final day when relations between opposing blocs came close to collapse. Latin American nations attempted to force a vote on a proposal to create a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic.

• Monday, July 11th 2011 - 07:40 UTC

  Millions of tons of plastic debris in oceans lethal threat for whales and dolphins

  

  Millions of tons of plastic debris dumped each year in the world's oceans could pose a lethal threat to whales and dolphins, according to a scientific assessment to be presented at a key international whaling forum this week.

• Friday, June 17th 2011 - 05:54 UTC

  Naked Russian woman scientist dances in Arctic waters with Beluga whales

  Braving subzero temperatures and underwater conditions, Natalia Avseenko, 36 threw away her inhibitions and her clothes to dive in with the Arctic Beluga whales, in an extremely interesting yet controversial experiment, trying to test the theory that the Beluga whales don’t like to be touched like diving suits, for example.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2011 - 21:52 UTC

  Humpback whale appears floating in the port of Montevideo

  

  An eight metre long humpback whale with a big gash close to the mouth appeared dead in the port of Montevideo. According to local marine biologists the cetacean most probably collided with a vessel.

• Monday, May 9th 2011 - 19:12 UTC

  Australia submits Japan’s Antarctic whaling program to the International Court

  

  The Australian government filed a written submission at the International Court of Justice in Netherlands calling for an end to Japan's Antarctic whaling program on the grounds that it breaches the international ban on commercial whaling. Australia made the official presentation of its case Monday at the ICJ.