Mittwoch, 5. September 2007
Iceland has opened fire yet again on the fin whale, a baleen whale second in size only to the blue whale. Early on Sunday, 22nd October, 2006, the first of a self-determined quota of nine fin whales was landed. On the Monday, the second was killed… After a 21-year-old cease fire, the Icelandic government issued [...]
read more...Mittwoch, 5. September 2007
Iceland Asbjörn Björgvinsson, Chairman of the Icelandic Whale Watching Association Manager for the Húsavík Whale Museum. A UNEP global 500 Laureate in the year 2000. On the 17th of October 2006 Iceland’s fisheries minister Mr. Einar K. Gudfinsson announced that he had decided to allow resumption of commercial whaling. Commercial whaling came to an end [...]
read more...Mittwoch, 5. September 2007
He is no longer there. “The Chinese river dolphin is extinct”, says Petra Deimer, President of the Society for the Conservation of Marine Mammals. “This is a sad and irreversible fact”. Using high-performance optical and acoustical instruments in boats, a multi-national research group scoured more than 3500 kilometres of the Yangtze River, the habitat of [...]
read more...Montag, 5. Februar 2007
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has declared 2007 the Year of the Dolphin. Patron of the educational campaign is Prince Albert II of Monaco, and TUI, Europe’s leading travel group, will be lending its support. Governments, the private sector and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are being asked to become involved in the campaign which is [...]
read more...Dienstag, 5. September 2006
The song for the International Whaling Commission by Kevin Johnson The plight of the whales is coming to a head. The 58th annual conference of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on the Caribbean island of St Kitts from 16th-20th June could mean the end of the 20-year efforts to protect these endangered marine mammals. In [...]
read more...Montag, 5. September 2005
Improved measures for the protection of migratory species were adopted by experts from more than 100 countries at the 8th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) in November 2005 in Nairobi. Through a listing on Appendix I of the CMS (also known as the [...]
read more...Montag, 5. September 2005
Whaling is not the only danger facing whales; their survival is being made increasingly difficult by humans – albeit unintentionally. Climate change in the Southern Hemisphere will undoubtedly lead to a shortage of food because stocks of krill, the most important food to be found in Antarctic waters, will be decimated. These thumb-sized prawns, the [...]
read more...Montag, 5. September 2005
Hamburg: Every year, the third Sunday in May is dedicated to the “small whale in big trouble”. This year it falls on Whit Sunday but, unfortunately, the Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise is not a day for rejoicing. The Baltic harbour porpoise is in major decline. Without strict protective measures, the only whale native [...]
read more...Dienstag, 5. April 2005
The third Sunday in May – this year May 15 – again marks the International Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise, which is being celebrated for the third time this year under the aegis of the United Nations Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (UNEP/ASCOBANS). This day was [...]
read more...Freitag, 5. September 2003
The Hanse Environmental Award, called for the ninth time, went to the Foundation Nature Conservancy Hamburg and the Foundation for the Conservation of Endangered Plants. With success they looked after the nature reserve “Boberger Niederung”. Dagmar Berghoff handed over together with NABU and the company Globetrotter a bronze statue and a cheque about 2,500 euros. [...]
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