Amazon Japan, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, pulled all whale meat products (and possibly dolphin meat) from its site after a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Humane Society International highlighted the issue. Last Decem…
02.23.2012
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Amazon Japan, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, pulled all whale meat products (and possibly dolphin meat) from its site after a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Humane Society International highlighted the issue. Last Decem…
02.16.2012
Categories: bangladesh, bycatch, Cetaceans, critically endangered species, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, happy-upbeat environmental, Home Wind Power, in-situ conservation, jeremy hance, Mammals, marine mammals, overfishing, protected areas, Rivers, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Bangladesh has declared three new sanctuaries to help protect the south Asian river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. Split into two subspecies, the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangeti…
01.28.2012
Categories: Africa, Australia, Breaking News, Cetaceans, dugongs, Endangered and Extinct Species, environment, Fish and Other Marine Life, fisheries, Fishing, Commercial, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Gulf of Guinea, Home Wind Power, Indian Ocean, Madagascar, Mammals, marine mammals, Myanmar, oceans, Politics and Policy, Read, Andrew, Research, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Sri Lanka, wildlife conservation, Wildlife Conservation Society, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Rising human consumption of marine mammals in tropical regions poses a threat to animals like the dugong, which is similar to a manatee, and the Atlantic humpback dolphin, researchers write.
01.25.2012
Categories: arctic, arctic animals, Cetaceans, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, jeremy hance, Mammals, marine mammals, oceans, Republic of the Congo, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Threats to marine mammals usually include climate change, drowning as by-catch, pollution, depletion of prey, but what about eating marine mammals? A new study in Biological Conservation finds that a surprising 87 marine mammals—including polar b…
01.17.2012
Categories: amphibians, baiji, corals, critically endangered species, edge, environment, frogs, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, in-situ conservation, jeremy hance, Mammals, marine mammals, saving species from extinction, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, species discovery, strange, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
What do Attenborough’s echidna, the bumblebee bat, and the purple frog have in common? They have all received conservation attention from a unique program by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) called EDGE. Five years old this week, the program focu…
01.17.2012
Categories: bycatch, Cetaceans, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, herps, Home Wind Power, jeremy hance, Mammals, marine crisis, marine mammals, ocean crisis, oceans, pacific, sea turtles, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Tuna, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
A Greenpeace video, using footage from a whistleblower, shows disturbing images of the tuna industry operating in the unregulated waters of the Pacific Ocean. Using fish aggregation devices (FADs) and purse seine nets, the industry is not only able to …
01.16.2012
Categories: activism, Cetaceans, conservation finance, economics, environment, environmental economics, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, iceland, in-situ conservation, jeremy hance, Mammals, marine mammals, Norway, oceans, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Whaling, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
How do you end a decades-long conflict between culture and conservation? How do you stop a conflict where both sides are dug in? A new paper in Nature proposes a way to end the long and bitter battle over whaling: environmentalists could pay whalers no…
01.13.2012
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On Tuesday a female pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) was found stranded on Tanjung Aru beach, in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo. After being moved to a swimming enclosure at a local resort for recuperation, the whale was rele…
01.12.2012
Categories: animal behavior, Animal behvaior, arctic, biodiversity, biodiversity crisis, climate change and extinction, climate science, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Greenland-Arctic, Home Wind Power, impact of climate change, jeremy hance, Mammals, marine mammals, mass extinction, migration, mountains, sea ice, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
The number of species identified by scientists as vulnerable to climate change continues to rise along with the Earth’s temperature. Recent studies have found that a warmer world is leading to premature deaths of harp seal pups (Pagophilus groenlandicu…
