Yearly Archives: 2008

A hard line environmentalist group chasing Japanese whalers near Antarctica said on Saturday it would do its utmost to disrupt the hunt although bad weather had thwarted a stink bomb attack on one vessel.

On behalf of all the IWDG committee and directors we’d like to take this opportunity to extend seasons greeting to all our visitors to this site and to our members, supporters and core funders. It has been another busy year of tremendous growth for our wildlife charity, which has been made possible with support from

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World Wildlife Fund has released its annual list of some of the most threatened species around the world, saying that the long-term survival of many iconic animals is increasingly in doubt due to a wide of threats.

Another whale watch trip in testing conditions off Galley Head with Colin Barnes yesterday 14th Dec. produced more world class sightings of minke, humpback and fin whales. Despite moderate conditions, we observed at least 3-4 minkes, 5-6 humpbacks and upwards of a dozen fin whales, all in the same waters both SW and SE of

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Survey Ended: December Patrol Area: Southwest and South Coast Agency: Naval Service Ship: L.E. Róisín Observer: Dave Wall ______________________________________ 12th December 2008 Hauled anchor this in the late morning and returned to Cobh, marking the end of my survey. 11th December 2008 Spent the morning heading offshore through some pretty awful conditions with winds picking

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With a sense that the current run of large whale activity off West Cork can’t last forever, it was decided to organise another research cruise with Colin Barnes on the MV Holly Jo. It was made clear by Eugene Mc Keown of Biospheric Enginering Ltd, that the focus of this charter was “acoustics” and not

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Greenpeace launched a campaign to turn Japan against whaling on Tuesday, with directors of the group from around the world delivering a letter to Prime Minister Taro Aso, urging him to halt the hunts.

Once again bottlenose dolphins have appeared along the Antrim coast in an impressive aggregation of at least 100 animals. As if on cue for this Thursdays public lecture in the Portrush Coastal Zone, titled ….”Monitoring Northern Irelands’ Cetaceans” (full details below), the Antrim coast has produced another unprecedented aggregation of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus Readers

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