
The same story as always… too many tourists playing with wild life. so here we go again: Based on the research of a University of Rhode Island professor, tourist activity in the waters off the Grand Cayman Islands is responsible for the disruption of behaviors and an increase in the size of the female population [...]
April 14, 2009 | Posted in
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So again, we see that you really can’t “domesticate” nature, as we see in the Dubai Aquarium last week, where sand Tiger sharks have killed at least 40 smaller reef sharks and been aggressive towards divers at The Dubai Mall Aquarium, Khaleej Times has learn. Divers carrying out tasks in the tank, without a cage, [...]
September 19, 2008 | Posted in
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Bottlenose dolphins suffering from food shortages may be killing their sibling species to take out the competition, scientists have warned.
A series of dead porpoises and young bottlenose dolphins washed up the country’s coastline have borne the animal’s teeth marks.
But the appearance of the body of a rare baby Risso’s dolphin on a beach in the [...]
September 7, 2008 | Posted in
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The whale population has already fallen dramatically over the past few centuries because to culling by Japan, Norway and Iceland, and the poisoning of oceans which kills off their food.
But now a French scientist has said the majestic mammals – which can reach 80ft in length and weigh the same as a passenger jet – [...]
June 1, 2008 | Posted in
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It’s a scene that brings laughter and cheers from visitors to a Japanese aquarium – two white beluga whales wearing Santa hats. But environmentalists are saddened by the sight of what they say is the final humiliation for the whale in a country that hunts them down with harpoons.
The beluga whales have been fitted out [...]
December 20, 2007 | Posted in
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The mysterious “mass suicide” of 152 dolphins washed up on Iran’s coast over the past month has alarmed environmentalists, with the blame pointed at regional fishing practices, officials said on Monday. In September, 79 striped dolphins were found washed up near Jask port in southern Iran, and last week another 73 were found dead in [...]
October 30, 2007 | Posted in
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Coral reefs die for many reasons, both from natural disasters and manmade pressures. A reef system that took hundreds of years to grow can be destroyed in a single day. When reefs die, fish populations disappear, fishermen lose their livelihoods, and tourists disappear. Whilst reef conservation is the most cost effective counter-measure, many believe that [...]
October 26, 2007 | Posted in
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Over the weekend the Costa Rican President Oscar Arias along with Environmental Minister Robert Dobles signed a decree that would protect whales and dolphins from being hunted in the large Costa Rican waters. The decree details that any pursuit, capture, injury, netting or commercialization of any whale and dolphin groups in the Costa Rican sea [...]
January 25, 2007 | Posted in
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