March 28, 2009
The Cove - Miami Premier Film Event with Richard O’Barry
Miami Film Premiere of The Cove
Sarnoff’s Film Night Event on Tuesday, March 31st inside City Hall Chambers at 6:30pm.
3500 Pan American Dr, Miami, FL 33133.
In the 1960’s, Richard O’Barry was the world’s leading authority on dolphin training, working on the set of the [...]

By Rosalind Peterson
March 28, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
The United States Navy requests permissions from the United States
Department of Commerce (NOAA), to kill thirty two species of marine
mammals
..
over five years in their Pacific Ocean Warfare testing program.
The Navy and the U.S.
Department of Defense have decided that their
Northwest Training Range Complex, in the State of Washington, should be
expanded, and have [...]

By Tasneem Brogger
March 27 (Bloomberg) — Iceland will seek to ban commercial whaling as
early as next year as the government aims to reverse a five-year hunting
approval granted by the former administration, Fisheries Minister
Steingrimur Sigfusson said.
“I’m very concerned that such large-scale commercial whaling can be very
risky in terms of total interests for Iceland,” Sigfusson, who is [...]

Mekong Dolphin facts:
Feeding on a variety of fish, crustaceans and cephalopods, the Mekong dolphin lives in the rivers and shallow coastal waters of Southeast Asia, Indonesia and northern Australia. This dolphin can live in freshwater and saltwater environments. The Asian dolphin is in high demand for display in zoos and aquariums, however the species is [...]

We thought we’d share with you a method of research being used on an endangered orca community in the pacific northwest. Along with taking blubber samples to analyze at a lab, researchers can also learn a lot from their poop, including the exact species of their prey, even right down to the river and stream [...]

Rescued whale later found dead in Australia
10 hours ago
PERTH, Australia (AP) — One of four whales that survived a mass stranding in southwest Australia was found dead Thursday not far from where it had been released back to sea, the state government said.
The juvenile pilot whale was one of 11 trucked overland from the original [...]

Perchance to Dream is a 7 minute animation about Lolita’s dream to be free. It will be showing on Espanola way in South Beach this Friday March 27th at 8pm at South Beach Animation Festival. Tickets are $10 and $7 if you are a student with a valid ID. If you are interested in going [...]

If you live in the U.S., then breath a sigh of relief, because it’s pretty safe.
**But please remember, just because it is labled dolphin safe does not mean that NO dolphins were killed, just an “acceptable number” were. Bycatch is still very much real aspect of all seafood fishing methods, Dolphins, whales, turtles, sharks, non-target [...]

Rescuers help stranded whales return to sea, but many questions remain
Los Angeles Times
7:06 PM, March 24, 2009
Pilot whales — a species whose members have beached themselves on Australia’s coastline in numbers totaling hundreds in the last few months — are incredibly social animals. They’re known to follow each other into danger, which may, in some [...]

There’s something that’s been on my mind lately that I want to discuss. I’ve been thinking about how we’re so against people killing whales and dolphins for food. I agree its wrong to kill whales or dolphins but shouldn’t it be just as wrong to kill any other animal on this planet for food? Doesn’t [...]