GOOGLE EARTH By Bette Bardeen According to Google Earth, an elephant seal lives down the street from me A photo link shows sand and waves and his enormous nose But the sand and waves are actually a few… Read More ›
Marine Mammals
Our Trash Chokes A Northern Elephant Seal
It’s ironic that the northern elephant seal’s worst nightmare was the human mammal–not its natural predators the great white shark and orca. In the 1800s oil hunters slaughtered nearly the entire northern elephant seal population…
Meat, Farms, The Sea and Me
The treatment of factory farm animals is nightmarish enough, but their wastes grow into an environmental catastrophe that directly affects our seas
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 ›
Runaway Elephant Seal Pup Rescued
Sure enough, before January 25, 2011, a young pup separated from its mother, managed to survive in the water, and washed up several miles south of the rookery–assuming this is where the pup was born.
Warming Arctic Waters Endanger Pacific Walrus
From: The New York Times February 8, 2011, 10:22 pm <!– — Updated: 12:07 am –>Walrus on Endangered Species Waiting List By ANDREW C. REVKIN Feb. 9, 12:10 a.m. | Updated The Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the… Read More ›
Sea Otter Death Toll Rises in 2010
From The San Francisco Chronicle Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, January 23, 2011 A record number of sea otter bodies were found on California coastlines last year, a trend that leaves scientists and conservationists concerned for the future of… 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 ›
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 ›
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