Editor’s Note: December 29, 2011: Scroll to bottom for story update From the San Luis Tribune http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/09/03/1742473/mama-whale-klamath-river.html By Julia Hickey | jhickey@thetribunenews.com Julia Hickey The Tribune Morro Bay resident Ashala Tylor’s intimate photographs of “Mama” — the gray whale that… Read More ›
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International Whaling Commission 2011 Update
From the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society Although the 63rd International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Jersey adopted a proposal by the United Kingdom to clean up the practices of the Commission, less than a day later Japan and its… Read More ›
Marine Mammal Entanglement Up Close & Personal
By Charmaine Coimbra This year I’ve been up close and personal with marine entanglement. A near-handful of northern elephant seals that hauled out to molt at Piedras Blancas, where I volunteer as a docent, arrived with strapping bands around their necks. If the straps… Read More ›
Japan Suspends Whale Hunt
From Planet Ark Februay 17, 2011 Photo: Reuters/Simon Ager/Sea Shepherd/Handout Japanese whaling fleet vessel Yushin Maru No. 3 (C) sprays water cannons at Sea Shepherd vessel ”Gojira” during their clash in the Southern Ocean February 4, 2011. … Read More ›
IWC Discusses Shepherd’s Anti-Whaling Effectiveness
Editor’s Note: 1/7/10 See Update “Death Throes…” below A reprint from http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/03/world/asia/AP-AS-WikiLeaks-Japan-Whaling.html?_r=1&ref=news January 3, 2011 US-Japan Discussed ‘Action’ Against Anti-Whalers By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 4:32 a.m. EST TOKYO (AP) — Japanese and American officials discussed taking action to… Read More ›
Gray Whale “Depleted” Petition Denied
A note from Sue Arnold CEO California Gray Whale Coalition Dear Colleagues, As expected, National Marine Fishery Services (NMFS) knocked back the petition in spite of a very significant number of responses which supported the concerns outlined in the document…. Read More ›
A Visual Gift From Neptune911’s Team
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Whale Meat Sales Decline–Japan’s Whaling Fleet Reduced
A reprint from Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2010. All rights reserved. TOKYO, Japan, December 2, 2010 (ENS) – Japan’s whaling fleet has been scaled back and today departed late for the Southern Ocean aiming to catch hundreds… Read More ›
Why Gray Whales Need Protection
Editor’s Note: This is a reprint of an editorial published 11/13/10 in The Santa Cruz Sentinel By Sue Arnold Three years ago, the California Gray Whale Coalition was created with one specific goal: to relist gray whales under the… Read More ›
A North Pacific Gray Whale Obstacle Course
If he skips entanglement, then our garbage still threatens him. Last year, a necropsy on a near-adult gray (so it wasn’t Skippy) discovered 20 plastic bags, small towels, surgical gloves, sweat pants, plastic pieces, duct tape, and a golf ball in its stomach.
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