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Posts Tagged ‘whale’
Animal Rights, Wildlife & Flora, Feb 23rd, 2012,
At a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver, Canada, scientists and philosophers have argued for affording whales and dolphins the same ethical considerations as humans. Now, you may ask, how good are human rights anyway? Not that great in many places of the world. But, never mind that right now, this is a question of ideology, to be enshrined in law. We’ll worry about who actually follows that law later. The idea is that, under domestic and international law, the Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans would guarantee rights for dolphins and whales…
Tags: cetaceans, dolphin, human, orca, rights, whale
Conservation, Dec 9th, 2011,
2.3bn yen ($29 million/ €22 million) in victims’ aid for the March 11 tsunami, which devastated communities on the northeastern coast of Japan, has been diverted to the country’s whaling industry. This discovery has sparked outrage from environmentalist groups like Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd and could further damage Japan’s international reputation. Junichi Sato, executive director for Greenpeace Japan, is quoted in the Independent: Not only is the whaling industry unable to survive without large increases in government handouts, now it’s siphoning money away from the victims of the 11 March triple disaster, at a time when they need it most….
Tags: Greenpeace, japan, minke, Sea Shepherd, tsunami, whale
Nature, Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Nov 9th, 2010,
Last summer, a fin whale got lost in the shallow waters of the Vejle Fjord between Sweden and Denmark. The animal, worn out by a long journey, was unable to reach the sea on it’s own again. Attempts from Danish rescue teams where sadly enough unable to help the whale back to sea and the animal eventually died. The fin whale, which was 17 meters (56 ft) long and weighed about 24 tons, turned out to be between 130 and 140 years old, a record for this type of whale. The “oldest” known fin whale ever found was 116 years…
Tags: denmark, fin whale, oceans, Vejle Fjord, whale
Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Jul 25th, 2010,
A photo showing a southern right whale breaching on top of a sailboat in South Africa was met with skepticism when it appeared in the media last week. Claims that the picture was ‘Photoshopped’ seem to have now been repudiated with the surfacing of a video of the breach. The video, shown on CBS News in the United States, clearly shows what the South African sailors, Paloma Werner and Ralph Mothes experienced when the 40-ton whale unexpectedly slammed into their boat, breaking the mast. The whale likely bruised and cut itself, but the sailors were unhurt. From a Los Angeles…
Tags: boat, breach, breaching, photo, Right, sailboat, sailors, South Africa, Southern, video, whale
Uncategorized, Jul 18th, 2010,
A False Killer Whale – a member of the dolphin family – leapt out of its tank during a performance at an aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. Video, taken by an American visitor at the aquarium, shows the dolphin first attempting to leap over the barrier and then falling back into the tank. It then successfully jumps out onto the concrete surrounding the tank, where trainers rush to roll it onto padding and keep it wet by spraying it with hoses. Dolphin activist and former trainer Rick O’Barry – who claims in the documentary film The Cove that he witnessed one…
Tags: aquarium, dolphin, False, japan, jump, Killer, O’Barry, tank, whale
Nature, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, Jun 12th, 2010,
If you’ve ever wondered about the historical background of whale hunting in Japan, contemporary Japanese attitudes towards whaling or wanted an overview of this controversial issue, check out the following two part video report from Al Jazeera English. Part one of the report gives a basic summary of the economic, cultural, societal and historical aspects of whaling in Japan. In part two, 101 East reporter Fauziah Ibrahim discusses issues of sustainability, culture, sovereignty, legality and allegations of corruption surrounding the whale hunt with Japan’s former whaling commissioner and a representative of Greenpeace Japan. Japan’s annual whale hunt is allowed by…
Tags: 101 East, Al Jazeera, hunt, hunting, japan, Japanese, report, video, whale, whaling
Nature, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, May 13th, 2010,
A gray whale has been spotted in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel. Gray whales, thought to be extinct in the Atlantic Ocean – what to speak of the Mediterranean – are large baleen whales previously believed to only live in the North Pacific. From a BBC News report: Once, three major populations of gray (also spelt grey) whale existed: in the western and eastern North Pacific Ocean, and in the North Atlantic. However, the North Atlantic population of gray whale became extinct sometime in the 17th or 18th Century, for reasons that are not clear. Scientists are…
Tags: Atlantic, False Creek, gray, Mediterranean, north, ocean, Pacific, scientists, sighting, Vancouver, whale
Climate Change, Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Mar 10th, 2010,
Back in the headlines after a triumphant Oscar win for Best Documentary Feature, the makers of the anti dolphin slaughter and capture film The Cove have not been relaxing in the glow surrounding the awards ceremonies. According to an article in the Guardian, The Cove‘s director Louie Psihoyos and company have helped bust an American sushi restaurant for serving whale meat. Called The Hump, the Santa Monica, California establishment was filmed serving sei whale meat to undercover members of the crew from The Cove. ‘These are endangered animals. They are protected species. It is one thing for the Japanese to…
Tags: dolphin, japan, meat, Psihoyos, restaurant, slaughter, sushi, The Cove, whale
