Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2011
On Sunday, May 15th, 2011, the annual „International Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise” is being celebrated in honour of the only whale species living in the Baltic Sea, but this year it is not a day for celebration. Although a conservation plan (aka the Jastarnia Plan) exists already for more than 10 years created [...]
read more...Montag, 21. März 2011
The Hon. Dr Wu-Hsiung Chen Minister, Council of Agriculture 37 Nanhai Road Taipei Taiwan 10014 14th March 2011 Dear Minister We, the undersigned organisations, would like to express our support for the Life Conservationist Association of Taiwan in its opposition to the capture and display of another whale shark at the National Museum of Marine [...]
read more...Mittwoch, 16. März 2011
This year, the Namibian government will again cull large numbers of South African seals: 85.000 pups and 6000 bulls. While the bulls get shot, the pups are clubbed and stabbed to death. The massacre always takes places in July at Cape Cross. On the beach the pups are separated from their mothers, rounded up and [...]
read more...Freitag, 25. Februar 2011
Quickborn (dpa) – According to marine conservationists, the number of harbour porpoises in the Baltic Sea is diminishing continuously. ‘Particularly alarming is the development in the inner Baltic Sea (East of Rügen), where only an estimate of 250 adults are left’, says Petra Deimer, Chair of the Society for the Conservation of Marine Mammals (GSM), [...]
read more...Donnerstag, 17. Februar 2011
The question is: is this the end? For this year? Perhaps even for ever? The fact is, that Japan has cut short this year’s whaling season in the Antarctic. The Japanese Fishery Agency in Tokyo confirmed that the government has recalled its whaling fleet from the Antarctic and suspended whaling. Apparently, the fleet has been [...]
read more...Montag, 17. Januar 2011
It is the same procedure every year: 87 nations meet at the IWC-conference and in the end, one is relieved that Japan does not get a majority for its obscene proposals to extend whale hunting. Which country is bribed by the Japanese next year, when do they have a majority? And then, Wikileaks publishes American [...]
read more...Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2011
On the coast of Labrador, five Harp Seal females gave birth – two to three months earlier as usual. Even native east coast inhabitants could not remember as early parturition as this year. The pups with their white baby fur were born ashore and not on drifting ice as usual. The worrying question is: is [...]
read more...Samstag, 25. Dezember 2010
Four years ago, hunters killed a strange looking polar bear. It’s nuzzle was much shorter than usual and had there were several brown patches of fur in its white coat. DNA-Analysis confirmed that it was a crossbreed between a Grizzly and a Polar bear. This incident, occurring four years ago, focuses on a problem which [...]
read more...Freitag, 17. Dezember 2010
Summary In September 2010, four Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) launched a Written Declaration 71/2010 on shark finning, which called on the Commission to deliver a proposal to prohibit the removal of shark fins on-board vessels. By 16th December, 423 of the 736 MEPs had added their names, achieving a majority Endorsed as a resolution [...]
read more...Montag, 6. Dezember 2010
Ruthless and ignorant against public opinion in most countries, the Japanese are continuing their whaling hunt also this year. On December 2nd, Japan’s whaling fleet set sail for Antarctica later than usual and with a smaller fleet. Traditionally, the fleet leaves Japan in November and returns in April. Due to the delay, they will be [...]
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