Militant anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd said Japan’s entire harpoon fleet had left the Antarctic whale sanctuary Saturday and was heading north, suggesting that their annual hunt may have come to an end.
An activist group says a Japanese whaling boat has collided with two anti-whaling ships and a refueling boat near Antarctica.
About a dozen killer whales trapped under sea ice appeared to be free after the ice shifted, village officials in Canada’s remote north said, while residents who feared they would get stuck elsewhere hired a plane to track them down.
A “super rare” ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) beached in Maco, Compostela Valley, on Wednesday but later died due to its failure to digest garbage and other debris it had eaten, a conservationist here said on Saturday.
A wounded whale was rescued twice Wednesday by local residents of Lubang Island in Occidental Mindoro.
The Philippine Coast Guard and fishermen here found a dead whale, literally, a weighty problem. So enormous was the sea mammal that the PCG on Friday asked local officials in Panganiban town, some 56 kilometers from here, to secure a dynamite so that its decomposing remains, found by a village official near the seashore of Barangay Cagradao on Wednesday, could be finally be disposed of.
Caretakers of an island in Candelaria, Zambales, found an unknown specie of whale on Saturday but it died early morning Sunday, a report from the provincial government said. The 4.2-meter long whale was first seen by the caretakers of Potipot Island at 1 p.m. on Saturday and drove the mammal away to deeper waters. The [...]
CANBERRA — A humpback whale has hit a dinghy with its tail off Australia’s coast, knocking a 13-year-old boy unconscious and breaking his collar bone. Drew Hall says he was fishing with his parents in a dinghy off the north coast of New South Wales state on Sunday morning when the whale breached nearby. He [...]
BRISBANE – Two people were injured and their boat suffered extensive damage after it collided with a humpback whale off the Brisbane coast, marine rescue officials said on Monday. The incident happened when a 10-metre (32-foot) marine rescue vessel with four people on board was called out to assist another boat on Sunday evening and [...]
