These are the sad pictures showing the desperate plight of a whale trapped in a fishing line.
The fmale humpback can be seen struggling to swim after the line pinned her pectoral fins to her side making it hard for her to move.
Sharks surrounded the whale waiting for her to tire enough to launch an attack.
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Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
August 14, 2009
After considering several candidates, the U.S. Navy announced last week that it will build its latest submarine warfare training facility in the waters off Jacksonville, Florida.But even though the site won’t open until 2014, the new tenant is already having trouble with its neighbors.
That’s because the chosen site for [...]
White beaked dolphins used to be common around the Hebrides, but have moved away as the waters have warmed. Credit British Divers Marine Life Rescue.
July 2009. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) were alerted by members of the public that 3 White-beaked dolphins had stranded on North Uist. BDMLR medic Martin Vaci arrived on the [...]
Editorial
A Non-Ban on Whaling
Published: June 27, 2009
At this point in its troubled history, it appears that the main function of the International Whaling Commission, which met last week on the Portuguese island of Madeira, is to ensure its own survival — and with it, the survival of a 40-year-old loophole-ridden “ban” on commercial whaling that [...]
Fishermen asked to aid search for entangled whale
Posted Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:40am AEST
South Australian fishermen are being asked to help in the search for a humpback whale entangled in lobster netting.
The Environment Department has been trying to find the whale since it entered South Australian waters about two days ago.
Deb Kelly from the department [...]
The Colombian Army have started shooting the world’s largest invasive species. Credit Carlos Andres Lopez.
Hippo pool at Escobar’s ranch. Photo credit Carlos Andres.
From Carlos Andres Lopez in Colombia.
July 2009. I have been working on finding ways to save around 20 hippos that have been roaming freely in the area of the now deceased drug baron [...]
Sea Shepherd Advisor Calls Japanese Dolphin Slaughter a “Travesty”
Former AustralianSenator and Environment Minister Ian Campbell is calling for a boycott of Tokyo’s bid for the 2016 Olympics, in protest at .Japan’s alleged annual slaughter of 23,000 dolphins
Ian Campbell is now an advisor to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
From the MelbourneAge:
Boycott JapanOlympics bid: ex-minister
July 15, 2009
Former [...]
Target:
Lord Mayor Campbell Newman
Sponsored by:
Suzie Magann Wildlife warrior
Recently the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin
was forced to leave Melbourne when the berth that the ship had been
using for free for three years was suddenly changed to a $59,000 a
month moorage bill. In Brisbane the ship is being forced to pay over
$400 a day for moorage.
Meanwhile
the Japanese [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
