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Joe Howlett, who also worked as a lobster fisherman, was the co-founder of the Campobello Whale Rescue Team. He died after rescuing a right...
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Grindadráp is the local name for a yearly event that sees the people of the Faroe Islands, an archipelago under Denmark, hunt pilot whales...
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The body size of some whale species diminished by several metres decades before 20th-century factory fishing caused their populations to collapse, researchers said Thursday....
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Sri Lanka’s navy and local residents rescued a pod of about 20 stranded pilot whales off the island’s northeastern coast on Wednesday, an official...
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The microbiological study of killer whales along the Pacific coast has proved to be significant. Marine biologists from the University of British Columbia are...
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The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under way in New Zealand Tuesday, with the beach closed over fears the...
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Most of the more than 200 whales who became stranded on New Zealand’s notorious Farewell Spit on the weekend have been able to refloat...
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Another 200 whales were stranded on a New Zealand coastline late Saturday, frustrating rescuers who had battled through the day and even defied a...
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More than 400 whales were stranded on a New Zealand beach Friday, with most of them dying quickly as frustrated volunteers desperately raced to...
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Environmental campaigners said Sunday they were taking legal action against a French marine park, Europe’s largest, over the treatment of its orca whales and...