The sluggish recovery of the southern sea otter of California, a threatened population on the Endangered Species list, appears to have stalled once again.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists say the latest 3-year running average (2,813 sea otters) was 0.5-percent lower than last year, the firs...
Friday 22nd January, 06:40 AM JST, TOKYO — Levels of mercury in hair samples of residents of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, which is known for customarily eating small whales caught by coastal whaling, are about 10 times the average in Japan, possibly due to consumption of whale meat with high concentr...
No-kill researchers sail to study Antarctic whales
Researchers set sail from New Zealand on Tuesday to study whales off Antarctica without killing them - an open challenge to Japan's killing of up to 1,000 whales a year in the name of science.
By RAY LILLEYAssociated Press WriterWELLINGTON, New Ze...
By Donald Liebenson-Special to the TribuneNovember 13, 2009
A sibling drama is playing out in the replicated rain forest treetops of Brookfield Zoo's Tropic World exhibit: Denda, a 7-year-old orangutan, is snacking on a clump of alfalfa, and his toddler sister, Kekasih, wants what he's having. But ...
In Japan, fishermen round up and slaughter hundreds and even thousands of dolphins and other small whales each year.
In the small fishing village of Taiji, entire schools of dolphins are driven into a hidden cove after a prolonged chase. Once trapped inside the cove, the fishermen kill the dolphins...
The howls echoing through Griffith Park today are coming from joggers, parents and nannies -- not coyotes. Park visitors are angry with wildlife officials' decision to trap and shoot coyotes in the 4,210-acre mountain park.
Trackers were called in to trap and shoot the animals after two people repo...
New Zealand and Australia claim they have created a way to do scientific research on whales without killing them.
This is in response to Japan's major whaling operations that kill up to 1,000 whales per year. More information can be found at the environment section of The NZHerald.
From: Julian Ryall, Telegraph UK
An animal rights campaigner who trained dolphins for the 1960s television series Flipper has managed to disrupt the first two days of the annual dolphin hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji, but accepts that as soon as he leaves the fishermen will resume the killing.
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More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered every year in a cove in Taiji, Japan. Their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food, often times labeled as whale meat. Courageous documentary filmmakers infiltrated the heavily guarded cove to uncover the truth ab...
Now that The Cove - the documentary about dolphin slaughtering in Japan - has officially rolled out to most U.S. cities, people's awareness about dolphins' precarious position on this planet has risen to new levels.
Films like this are incredible in that they can literally shock viewers into action...
All over the world more than 10,000 animal species are in danger. Some are in danger because their homes are being destroyed. Many are in danger because people hunt them. Among these are the manatees.
Manatees are gentle creatures that some call Sea Cows.
Their Falling Numbers!!Florida Manatees ar...
Joel ReynoldsDirector of NRDC's Urban Program, the Marine Mammal Protection and So. California Ecosystem projects, Santa Monica, CAPosted July 13, 2009 in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild PlacesIn yesterday's New York Times Magazine
("Watching Whales Watch Us"), author Charles...
This is serious stuff, bats are dying from a fungus called white nose syndrome.
Congressional members from 13 states in the US as asking the Obama administration for emergency funding to keep bats alive. A half million have already died. The bats are a vital link in the ecosystem as they feed on bu...
Amidst worldwide protest and controversy, Canada’s shameful annual massacre of 300,000 baby harp seals began today. Mass killings are underway in the Saint Lawrence Gulf and will soon expand to Newfoundland. Canada’s seal hunt (if you can call bludgeoning defenseless baby animals to death “hunting”)...
KYOTO (Japan) - THAI monkeys have been observed showing their young how to floss - proof that primates teach offspring to use tools, a Japanese researcher says.
'I was surprised because teaching techniques on using tools properly to a third party are said to be an activity carried out only by human...
The Canadian government is being sued by environmentalists demanding they use the countries' Species at Risk Act to protect killer whales off British Columbia. Ecojustice, on behalf of 8 environmental groups recently filed the suit to force officials to use the legislation to safequard the habitat o...
Wildlife-Conservation Society and Republic of Congo said new census counted 125,000 newly discovered gorillas. Western lowland gorillas were believed to have been reduced by 50% due to hunting and disease.
Primatologists in Edinburgh, Scotland warn that nearly half of the world's 634 types of prima...
