Press Release Center for Biological Diversity Lawsuit Launched to Reinstate Protections for Endangered Sperm Whales Threatened by California Drift Gillnet Fishery SAN FRANCISCO— Conservation groups today announced plans to file a lawsuit to reinstate rules designed to protect endangered sperm whales from deadly, mile-long drift gillnets in ocean waters off California. The National Marine Fisheries […]
Lawsuit To Reinstate Sperm Whale Protections — Natural History Wanderings
The San Francisco Chronicle reports In decades past, humpback whales almost exclusively swam past the bay and stayed offshore during their annual migration from April to October. Now, a rising number are coming closer to the coast. Some venture into San Francisco Bay during peak season, and a few even stay in nearby waters year-round. […]
Whales are now hanging around in San Francisco Bay — Natural History Wanderings
There is no other feeling like spotting your first whale. My first whale was at sixteen on a solo trip to Tenerife, where I volunteered in marine conservation. I spent the time monitoring pilot whales and various dolphins. Funnily enough, I instantly looked forward to whale sightings more than dolphins! Whales have a sedate grace […]
The best places for whale watching in the UK: 7 locations to try — Everything UK Travel
Dominican Today announced that the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has officially opened the humpback whale watching season for 2022, which runs from January 15 to March 31 in the Bay of Samaná and until April 15 at Banco de La Plata in Puerto Plata. The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources officially began the […]
Dominican Republic opens whale watching season 2022 — Repeating Islands
WC’s recent post on Brandt’s Cormorant mentioned and photographed Humpback Whales engaged in a form of cooperative feeding called bubble net feeding. Humpbacks and Bryde’s Whales – a species WC has never seen – are the only whales known to engage in this fishing technique. In Humpbacks, one to fifteen whales swim around a school […]
By Popular Demand: Bubble Net Feeding — Wickersham’s Conscience
Dominican Today announced that the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has officially opened the humpback whale watching season for 2022, which runs from January 15 to March 31 in the Bay of Samaná and until April 15 at Banco de La Plata in Puerto Plata. The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources officially began the […]
Dominican Republic opens whale watching season 2022 — Repeating Islands
Press Release Center for Biological Diversity Lawsuit Launched to Reinstate Protections for Endangered Sperm Whales Threatened by California Drift Gillnet Fishery SAN FRANCISCO— Conservation groups today announced plans to file a lawsuit to reinstate rules designed to protect endangered sperm whales from deadly, mile-long drift gillnets in ocean waters off California. The National Marine Fisheries […]
Lawsuit To Reinstate Sperm Whale Protections — Natural History Wanderings
Press Release from EarthJustice Whales & Dolphins: Lawsuit Seeks to Reduce Harm from Navy Sonar in Pacific Millions of marine mammals face injury, death off Hawaiʻi, Southern California A lawsuit filed in Hawaiʻi federal court today challenges the National Marine Fisheries Service’s approval of a 5-year plan by the U.S. Navy for testing and training activities off […]
Lawsuit To Protect Whales & Dolphins From Sonar — Natural History Wanderings
Anthropocene A million additional whales defecating close to the surface would be like having massive ocean fertilizer machines—absorbing as much carbon as forests covering a continent Read more at Poo from the world’s largest animals have a stunning effect on ocean ecosystems—and even carbon capture
Poo from the world’s largest animals have a stunning effect on ocean ecosystems—and even carbon capture — Natural History Wanderings
The New York Times reports North Atlantic right whales are struggling to survive, and it shows.Most of the 360 or so North Atlantic right whales alive today bear scars from entanglements in fishing gear and collisions with speeding ships and, according to a new study, they are much smaller than they should be. Read more at On […]
On the Verge of Extinction, These Whales Are Also Shrinking — Natural History Wanderings
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