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 ›
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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 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.
Taiji, Japan Conservationists & Dolphin Hunters Ends Badly
By JAY ALABASTER, Associated Press Jay Alabaster, Associated Press Tue Nov 2, 5:58 am ET TAIJI, Japan – An unprecedented meeting between conservationists and leaders of the dolphin-hunting village depicted in the Oscar-winning film “The Cove” ended in bitter disagreement Tuesday. The carefully organized… Read More ›
World’s Marine Life Connected From Sea to Shiny Sea
Census shows connectedness of world’s marine life By SETH BORENSTEIN (AP) WASHINGTON — The world’s oceans may be vast and deep, but a decade-long count of marine animals finds sea life so interconnected that it seems to shrink the watery… Read More ›
Septic Tanks, Agriculture Runoff & Lawn Fertilizer Killing Sea Otters?
By J.M. Brown Santa Cruz Sentinel SANTA CRUZ — Scientists from UC Santa Cruz and the state Department of Fish and Game believe they have traced at least 21 recent California sea otter deaths to a poison produced by algae… Read More ›
Crumpling Oceans, Like Dominos Falling
Dominos. It’s like 150 years of stacked dominoes collapsing in four directions from Rugby, North Dakota, North America’s geographical center and from every geographical center of every continent on Planet Earth—with the final dominos landing in every sea that touches every continent. Collapsing dominos. That’s how I envision the condition of our seas today.
“Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of our Wild Ocean”
Whitty draws freely on historical and mythological sources to portray the power of the oceans in human culture. She finds inspiration in Hindu literature’s Mahabharata, India’s Rig Veda, the Greek pantheon, Norse mythology, and the cave art of Baja California.
Whales, God’s First Creation.
7/7/10 Update on Peter Bethune Trial: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/world/asia/08whaling.html?_r=1 UPDATE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/23/AR2010062300810.html?hpid=moreheadlines By Charmaine Coimbra Part 3 of 3 Part 1 begins at https://neptune911.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/whales-and-us-or-whats-all-the-fuss/ Genesis: 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly,… Read More ›
Whale Hunt History And Today’s Whaler Death Ships
Whales and whale hunters follow humankind’s voyage thru the ages. Whale meat and the byproducts of its blubber, bones and baleen made the great cetacean an optimum kill. Whale hunts grew from primitive beaching techniques to today’s factory ships, or death ships as named by conservationists.