The captain of the anti-whaling ship, the Steve Irwin, has been arrested in Portugal on an outstanding 30-year-old arrest warrant.
Paul Watson was arrested at Madiera airport as he arrived for this week’s meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portugal.
The Australian director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Jeff Hansen, says Mr Watson was [...]

01:00 AM EDT on Monday, June 22, 2009
Journal Staff Report
LITTLE COMPTON — With help from a hired excavator, officials at Briggs Beach on Saturday buried a dead humpback whale that had been decomposing for nearly a week.
The state’s other beached whale, which had washed ashore near Sakonnet Point on June 16, was allowed to drift [...]

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News, Madeira
The annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) opens shortly, with compromise talks between pro- and anti-whaling bloc delicately poised.
The compromise “package” would see Japan trim its Antarctic hunt in return for the right to catch whales quasi-commercially in its coastal waters.
The original aim of finishing [...]

By (AP) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.
Published: Sat, June 20, 2009 - 3:00 am Last Updated: Sat, June 20, 2009 - 3:07 am
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Like raccoons with picnic coolers or urban coyotes with pet cats, west Florida’s bottlenose dolphins are learning that proximity to humans can make for easy meals. They shadow boats, waiting for [...]

20 Jun 2009, 1531 hrs IST, ANI
WASHINGTON: A new report by the WWF (Worldwide fund for Nature) has revealed that pollution in the Mekong River has pushed the local population
of Irrawaddy dolphins
to the brink of extinction.
The Mekong dolphin population is estimated at between 66 and 86 individuals inhabiting a 190km stretch of the Mekong River [...]

Monk seals to receive added habitat protection
Wider designation limits federal government’s activities on main islands
The Honolulu Advertiser, June 12, 2009
By Jaymes Song
The federal government today will significantly expand the critical habitat for endangered Hawaiian monk seals to include beaches and waters of the main Hawaiian Islands, officials said.
Environmentalists say the added habitat is needed to [...]

Ottawa widens right whales’ habitat
By The Canadian Press
Thu. Jun 18 - 4:46 AM
The federal government has added two critical feeding areas for the North Atlantic right whales to the Species at Risk Act in a bid to enhance protections for the endangered mammals.
The Roseway Basin off Nova Scotia and the Grand Manan Basin in the [...]

A second whale death in Little Compton
01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, June 18, 2009
By DONITA NAYLOR and TOM MORGAN
Journal Staff Writers
LITTLE COMPTON — Lightning can strike twice, and so can whale beachings.
For the second time in the same week, a whale has come ashore in Little Compton, the most southeastern point in the state.
On Sunday, [...]

The Log Newspaper
MARINA DEL REY — A 25-foot whale that has taken up residence in the Marina del Rey Channel has attracted scores of spectators during its surprise three-week stay.
While boaters have been curious to see the behemoth up close, marine mammal experts remind whale watchers that a California gray whale can cause major damage [...]

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY
Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS — A commercial fishing boat captain who spotted dozens of the world’s biggest fish off Louisiana’s coast turned his boat into a research vessel for a week, taking scientists and photographers to look for whale sharks.
The expedition returned exhilarated, having identified seven whale sharks. Three of the spotted fish [...]