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New vessel deployed in fight to save near-extinct Mexico porpoise
Jan 26, 2023 (AFP)
The ship's arrival comes at a "critical time" for the vaquita porpoise, which counts Leonardo DiCaprio among its celebrity defenders, the Sea Shepherd Conservat...
France under pressure to save dolphins from trawlers
Jan 25, 2023 (AFP)
On Wednesday, Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, head of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO), said he would write to President Emmanuel Macron that "the time has...
Whale dies after washing ashore in northern France
Nov 07, 2022 (AFP)
Experts had hoped the rising tide would come in time to help the cetacean back on its way, but the animal died as it struggled to reach the water. "It probably ...
500 pilot whales dead after New Zealand mass strandings
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
Two "super pods" of the dolphin-related cetaceans beached on two islands in the remote chain and survivors were euthanised, according to the Department of Conse...
250 pilot whales die in remote New Zealand stranding
Oct 08, 2022 (AFP)
The pilot whales, members of the dolphin family, were reported to have been stranded Friday on the northwest of the island, New Zealand's department of conserva...
Argentine scientists worried after spate of whale deaths
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
From September 24 to October 2, at least 13 southern right whales died in the Nuevo Gulf close to the Valdes Peninsula in Argentine Patagonia, an area that is a...
Canada's Hudson Bay a summer refuge for thousands of belugas
Sep 29, 2022 (AFP)
Far from the Seine river where a beluga strayed in early August north of Paris, the estuaries that flow into the bay in northern Canada offer a sanctuary for th...
230 pilot whales stranded in Australia, 'about half' feared dead
Sep 21, 2022 (AFP)
Aerial images showed a devastating scene of dozens of black glossy mammals strewn across a long beach, stuck on the waterline where the frigid southern ocean me...
Shipping giant changes course to save Sri Lanka whales
Sep 09, 2022 (AFP)
The island's southern coast has an unusually high density of blue whales, classed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and is one of the wo...
Living together: how two different species of dolphins coexist in Australia
Sep 06, 2022 (SPX)
Australian snubfin (Orcaella heinsohni) and humpback (Sousa sahulensis) dolphins live in sympatry throughout most of their range, primarily in shallow (less tha...
Beluga whale is now stationary in Seine: NGO
Aug 08, 2022 (AFP)
Hopes are fading to save the animal, which was first spotted on Tuesday in the river that runs through Paris to the English Channel. "It is alert but not eating...
Faroe Islands to limit dolphin hunt quota to 500
Jul 10, 2022 (AFP)
"An annual catch limit of 500 white-sided dolphins has now been proposed by the Ministry of Fisheries on a provisional basis for 2022 and 2023," the government ...
Huge groups of fin whales sign of hope for ocean giants
Jul 07, 2022 (AFP)
The ocean giants are second only to blue whales in length, with slender bodies that help them glide through the water at high speed. They could not evade indust...
Eavesdropping on whales in the high Arctic
Jul 06, 2022 (SPX)
The technique, called Distributed Acoustic Sensing, or DAS, uses an instrument called an interrogator to tap into a fibre optic system, turning unused, extra fi...
Killer whale stranded in France's River Seine dies
May 30, 2022 (AFP)
Regional officials had already decided to euthanise the killer whale -- also known as an orca -- to end its suffering, but a sailor spotted the animal lying on ...
Fears for Orca spotted in France's River Seine
May 25, 2022 (AFP)
The whale, also known as an orca and usually found in open salt water, was swimming between the port city of Le Havre at the mouth of the Seine and the inland c...
Inbreeding won't doom the last of the vaquitas, but fishing might: study
May 05, 2022 (AFP)
However, a new study published Thursday in the journal Science offers some hope: the world's rarest marine mammals aren't doomed by a lack of genetic diversity,...
Chasing the blue whale
May 03, 2022 (SPX)
These are some of the conclusions of the article published in the journal Scientific Reports, signed by the experts Alex Aguilar and Assumpcio Borrell, from the...
Endangered North Atlantic right whales make a stand in Cape Cod
Apr 17, 2022 (AFP)
The captain cuts the engines and a trio of marine biologists spring into action, rapidly snapping photos and noting markings that can be used to identify indivi...
Mexico seeks 'miracle' to save near-extinct vaquita porpoise
Apr 05, 2022 (AFP)
Mexico's navy and the environmental organization Sea Shepherd are working together to prevent the vaquita porpoise -- which counts Leonardo DiCaprio among its c...
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