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After leading the Japanese whalers to believe that the Bob Barker and Steve Irwin will meet for resupply, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society finally discovered the rest of the whaling fleet, including the main factory ship.
The Bob Barker made contact at 2200 AEST on March 5, telling SSCS leader Paul Watson &ldqu... |
6 March 2012
04:06 GMT |
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A short while back, the Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) filed for an injunction against the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) in the United States, on the grounds that it interfered with their activities in the Southern Ocean.
What they basically wanted to do was stop the Sea Shepherd fleet from... |
21 February 2012
07:52 GMT |
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The anti-whaling operations developed by Sea Shepherd activities have recently taken a dangerous turn. Three of the crew members boarded on Steve Irwin vessel suffered minor injuries while trying to deal with the Japanese whale hunters.
The three volunteers are the first victims recorded during this hunt season. The... |
18 January 2012
09:30 GMT |
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US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) investigators established in a new study that the sounds emitted by scientific tracking equipment used to monitor whales is affecting the way in which the animals behave. The effect is visible even 120 miles (193 kilometers) away.
The issue with monitoring eq... |
17 January 2012
06:03 GMT |
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As global warming gradually decreases the amount of ice covering seas around the North Pole, whale pods are beginning to meet up with other groups, from which they have been separated for thousands of years. Experts discovered the phenomenon in the Northwest Passage, north of Canada. Biologists say that they were abl... |
22 September 2011
20:11 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new study, it would appear that the reason why early whales have abnormally-shaped head is because this enabled them to use acoustics to discover the locations of things underwater. These shapes were not merely an adaptation that occurred later on.For many years, researchers have bel... |
23 August 2011
02:52 GMT |
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The Russian government has barred all oil-extracting companies seeking to conduct business in the Sakhalin Island from carrying out their activities when Western gray whales are present in the area. As such, any economic agency seeking to appropriate any of the newly-available concessions will have to respect this me... |
30 May 2011
10:47 GMT |
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Officials with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) announce that Operation 'No Compromise' – this year's effort to stop the illegal Japanese whaling fleet from carrying out its mission in Antarctic waters – is officially over. According to reports, this was the most successful camp... |
7 March 2011
05:45 GMT |
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The latest report from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) shows that the Japanese whaling fleet, which is conducting illegal operations in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, is on the run.After being discovered about five days ago, the Nisshin Maru factory ship and the Yushin Maru No. 3 harpoon vessel are ... |
14 February 2011
05:06 GMT |
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Officials with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) announce that the conservationist group has reached the half of its 2011 Operation No Compromise. Its main objective is to prevent the Japanese whaling fleet from conducting its illegal operations in the waters around Antarctica.
Sunday marked the 54th d... |
24 January 2011
02:29 GMT |
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The three ships of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) fleet are keeping the illegal Japanese whaling fleet in check in the waters of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Two of the harpoon ships the Asian nations deployed have not captured a single whale thus far.
SSCS is conducting Operation No Compromi... |
8 January 2011
06:37 GMT |
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According to a new decision by authorities in the United States, a series of speed restrictions will be imposed for the water along the Eastern Seaboard, so that inbound or outbound ships could avoid striking endangered right whales, and accidentally killing them. These restrictions will however be only seasonal for ... |
2 November 2010
04:13 GMT |
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A group of scientists attached sensors to 14 narwhals, and managed to accurately measure winter temperatures in the waters off western Greenland.The climate scientists had limited ways of measuring the winter temperatures of Baffin Bay, because of the thick and dense ice, the harsh conditions and the high cost of thi... |
28 October 2010
10:33 GMT |
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Scientists are aware of the dramatic environmental impact the oil slick is having on the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. In addition to killing wildlife on the surface, in protected areas, and starving areas in the deep ocean of oxygen, the crude is also posing an increasing threat to the already-dwindling whale population... |
29 July 2010
10:04 GMT |
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One of the world's most critically endangered marine animal is the vaquita, a very rare porpoise that lives in a small portion of the Gulf of California, precisely where the Baja peninsula affixes itself to Mexico. This marine animal has been inching closer to extinction for many years, and the most recent count... |
9 June 2010
09:29 GMT |
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Marine biologists have for a long time believed that the humpback whale is one of the cetacean species that is not as socially-active as most of the others are. This idea was based on observations of whale groups, in which individuals did not appear to be interested in communications that much. But a new study comes ... |
9 June 2010
06:45 GMT |
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The huge diversity in body shapes and sizes that modern-day whales exhibit have always puzzled researchers. They learned some time ago that creatures ranging from porpoises and dolphins to whales shared a common ancestor, but the way in which these types of animals branched out from this early ancestor has remained a... |
4 June 2010
05:43 GMT |
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One of the most difficult aspects of whale research is explaining their widely-varying sizes. The vaquita porpoise, which weighs barely 55 kilograms, cannot be readily placed in the same category as the blue whales. The latter is the largest animal in existence, weighing around 180 metric tons. Still, they are both c... |
19 May 2010
04:36 GMT |
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Last week, the chair of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Cristian Maquieira, proposed a draft on a new international agreement aimed at regulating whaling across the world's oceans. The proposal was neither black nor white, and featured numerous compromises, on the part of both pro-whaling and anti-wh... |
29 April 2010
09:49 GMT |
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is so keen at promoting a compromise between nations opposing and countries favoring whaling that it appears to forget why it was set up in the first place. This was made obvious in a proposal that the organization released about five days ago, in which a number of new &ldqu... |
27 April 2010
03:03 GMT |
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Recently, the Japanese hunting fleet returned to its home port in Japan only to reveal the real extent of the damage that actions of the environmentalist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) inflicted on their planned annual catch. The ships only managed to secure about half of their quota, with the other h... |
13 April 2010
11:07 GMT |
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Representatives from New Zealand recently said that the country's position on the issue of whaling is that compromise from all sides needed to be accepted. They said that whaling nations should be allowed to hunt some whales each year, but that quotas shouldn't be as high as they were at the moment. Additio... |
1 April 2010
19:01 GMT |
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The Patagonian Coast, in Argentina, features a location known as the Peninsula Valdes, which has been somewhat of a gruesome scene for the past five years. Since 2005, nearly 310 whales have been found dead here for no apparent reason. The worst part is that only a handful of the animals were adults, with nearly 90 p... |
29 March 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Speaking on February 21 in San Diego, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), expert Christopher Clark, who is the I.P. Johnson director of the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology Bioacoustics Research Program, explained some of the challenges these intelligen... |
23 February 2010
10:02 GMT |
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The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has recently announced that he will be trying to reason with the Japanese, and negotiate a way of bringing down the number of whales fisherman in the Asian nation kill each year to zero. The official says that the country has no reason to continue its practices, given the fa... |
20 February 2010
03:53 GMT |
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Activist Pete Bethune, from New Zealand, boarded a Japanese whaling ship on Monday, to make a citizen's arrest on the captain. The reason for this action was that Bethune's powerboat, named Ady Gil, was sunken by a whaling ship last month, as it was carrying Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) activis... |
15 February 2010
02:54 GMT |
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Baleen whales form a group of marine animals that includes the largest living thing on the planet, the blue whale. They do not feed like other creatures, by swallowing or chewing their food, but by filtering enormous amounts of water using their baleens. These structures that they have on their upper jaws allow them ... |
5 January 2010
09:53 GMT |
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New Zealand and Australia announce that they will begin their own whaling programs, which will use non-lethal means to study cetaceans. The move is aimed directly against Japan, a country that seems unable to take a hint. The Asian nation poorly “disguises” its whale cull under a research program, and cla... |
5 January 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Everybody knows that whales communicate using very high-pitched sounds that resemble clicks. These sounds can be heard over incredibly long distances, and prove that the creatures are intelligent and able to understand each other. But this discovery, for example, was only made possible through the use of acoustic sur... |
30 December 2009
19:31 GMT |
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The Scandinavian nation of Norway incited international outrage recently, when it announced that it would increase its maximum whale-hunting quota by more than 45 percent, as opposed to the 2009 level. The move was sparked by nothing more than political interests that this country and Japan had in preserving the usel... |
9 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Blue whales are renowned around the world for the beautiful songs they use to communicate with each other. This has become something of a trademark for the large sea mammals, which are currently endangered from excessive hunting. But, over the years, as the technology to trace and listen to them has become available,... |
3 December 2009
05:05 GMT |
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Scientists have known for quite a long time that whales communicate through their song, those long sounds that they make when being relatively close to each other. Some of the clicks can even be heard miles away, and picked up by other whales, if noise pollution and sonar sounds don't mask them. Now, scientists ... |
10 November 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Scientific knowledge on how the cetaceans, a group of aquatic mammals including whales, dolphins and porpoises, evolved is fairly scarce. Fossils belonging to the earliest such animals that decided to leave the ground and go into the water are very rare to come by, so the understanding of how these animals evolved ha... |
25 September 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Because of their impressive sizes, whales provide a source of food for many aquatic organisms upon their death. Their carcasses sink to the ocean floor, where they become the base structure for an entire ecosystem that begins to be built around their bones. It is in such ecosystems that experts recently discovered ne... |
21 September 2009
05:59 GMT |
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New studies on whales' behavior have come to a rather surprising conclusion – these marine animals may be as intelligent as apes are, or maybe even more. Anthropologists believe that the whales developed intelligence millions of years before the last ancestor of primates and humans did. For this reason, so... |
26 June 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Current efforts of saving the world's whales may be disregarding one of the most important aspects of the cetaceans' behavior, a new study seems to prove. Culture is an essential factor in understanding the way these large animals act, a growing idea in the international scientific community says. As an exa... |
25 June 2009
04:23 GMT |
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The environment in which we developed, made up of sounds, images, tastes and touches, is incredibly complex when compared with that of whales. These noble animals live in a world where seeing is limited to a few meters at best, but where hearing is king. The best of these animals can communicate over unbelievably lon... |
23 June 2009
03:24 GMT |
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Over the past few years, the range of potential applications for laser devices has increased exponentially, and some scientists now even envision outfitting certain types of aircraft with them, so that they could directly communicate with friendly submarines and also hunt for enemy ships. When a laser beam hits the w... |
26 May 2009
08:55 GMT |
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On March 2nd, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) found again its ship surrounded by police officers. But this time around, it wasn't to illegally confiscate video materials of their encounters with the Japanese whaling fleet, like it had happened a few weeks back, but to protect the five members of the... |
4 March 2009
05:15 GMT |
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Late on Sunday, a group of approximately 194 pilot whales and 7 dolphins beached themselves on an Australian coast, wildlife officials announced, with many of them dying shortly afterwards. Out of the original group, only 54 were alive on Monday morning, when a long and hard rescue effort was mounted so as to return ... |
2 March 2009
03:24 GMT |
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A breakthrough discovery made near Pakistan offers scientists confirmation for one of their theories about the origins of whales, a hypothesis that they had no way of testing considering the lack of fossils from the respective time frame. Now, a unique fossil of a pregnant female, estimated to be some 47 million year... |
4 February 2009
03:43 GMT |
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The North-Atlantic nation recently announced that it would again expand its self-assigned yearly quota of fin whales to approximately 150 over the next five years, even tough authorities in the country are perfectly aware of the fact that the culling of whales is expressly prohibited in international treaties. The mo... |
30 January 2009
07:09 GMT |
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The US Navy and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) environmental organization came to a settlement in their lawsuit, which the group, supported by other similar organizations, filed against the military, in an attempt to force the removal of mid-frequency sonar waves from routine naval exercises. About a mo... |
29 December 2008
03:56 GMT |
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An impressive group of 64 long-finned whales was discovered stranded on Sunday, on Tasmania's northwest coast, occupying a large portion of Anthony's Beach. Wildlife experts worked around the clock throughout the day, and managed to save 12 whales, by hauling them via trailers to Godfrey's Beach, some ... |
24 November 2008
06:36 GMT |
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While children crave for a toy helicopter under the Christmas tree, scientists use them to collect data on how whales are affected by their environment, and other risk factors. By equipping remote-controlled toys with Petri dishes, and flying them through snots, Zoological Society of London veterinarian and conservat... |
12 November 2008
04:13 GMT |
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In the long list of police denials, we can now include this one: they have openly said that there is no Internet suicide cult but officers are actively checking the email, online chats and SMS exchanged by the teens who decided that it was all to much to bear. Although taking your own life is a great means of natural... |
24 January 2008
17:11 GMT |
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