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Whales
Taiji is short of dolphin meat
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2009
Residents of coastal Japanese town Taiji would have you believe they love dolphins. Murals depict cuddly cetaceans on buildings and dolphinariums draw tourists every year.
In court
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2008
sonar use limit: While a lawsuit challenging the US Navy's use of mid-frequency active sonar is still pending in the US federal court, a district court in San Francisco has limited the use of low-frequency active sonar to certain military training areas of the Pacific Ocean. The court agrees with conservationists, who had long argued that the use of sonar has the potential to harm or even kill whales. The US navy had repeatedly denied it.
Welcome whale
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2008
Ozeaneum, an ambitious oceanography museum opened its doors to the public in the north-eastern German port town of Stralsund on July 12. It
contains 39 huge fish tanks and seven life-size models of whales. Ozeaneum is an architecturally dramatic extension to the existing
Oceanography Museum in Stralsund, a town on the Baltic Coast. It focuses, in particular, on the world's cold seas--the North Sea, the Baltic and
the Atlantic.
"We don't even know about many species of creature in the deep oceans," said Harald Benke, director of the Oceanography Museum. The
In Short
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2008
>> Governments of Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast have announced a joint health programme to tackle a meningitis epidemic, which has gripped the bordering area of the two countries. By the second week of March, the disease killed 441 people in Burkina Faso and 44 people in Ivory Coast. More than 6,000 people are suffering from the disease in the two countries.
In Short
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2008
>> Virgin Airlines owner Richard Branson recently claimed to have made history by launching the first biofuel-powered commercial flight from London to Amsterdam. The debatable point is it took 150,000 coconuts and some babassu palm oil from the Amazon rainforest to power 20 per cent of one of four tanks of the airliner.
Whaling indiscriminately
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2008
This image of a minke whale and a calf being dragged on to a Japanese whaling ship is just one of a sequence showing the mammals being chased and slaughtered in the Antarctic Ocean, say Australian custom officials who tracked the vessel for a month. Releasing the pictures, the Australian environment minister said the 'distressing pictures' would help the fight against whaling.
Japanese whalers free activists, chase continues
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2008
Two anti-whaling activists who had been detained by Japanese whalers for three days have now been freed.
The activists -- Australian Benjamin Potts and Briton Giles Lane -- were held on January 13, when they scrambled aboard a Japanese harpoon ship, Yushin Maru No 2, in Antarctic waters to deliver a protest letter from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an ngo.
Japan not to hunt humpbacks
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2008
Following intense pressure from the International Whaling Commission (iwc), Japan has dropped plans to hunt humpback whales during this year's annual whaling expedition, which is underway in the Antarctic Ocean.
Whale strays into Amazon
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2007
A five-metre minke whale strayed 1,600 km from the Atlantic Ocean and ran aground on a sandbank in the Amazon jungle's Tapajos river on November 13. Though it was spotted and freed, it did not survive.
Falling demand saves whales
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2007
Market forces have achieved what international laws could not. Iceland, one of the prominent defaulters of the International Whaling Commission (iwc), has had to put a stop to whaling due to the falling demand for whale meat. Icelandic fisheries minister Einar Guofinnsson says whaling quotas will not be renewed after the current one expires on August 31.
