Mass whale stranding in Far North
The Department of Conservation (DOC) in Kaitaia received a call from a member of the public at approximately 10.30am this morning advising of a mass whale stranding on Karikari Beach (a remote beach on...
Europe blows its annual budget for fish on Friday 9 July
New research reveals that Europe could not feed itself on fish from EU waters for more than 189 days a year, and from today is dependent on fish caught elsewhere.
Consuming far more than our...
Information on Bird Impacts from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
What is the Likely Impact on Birds?
The concern for birds are three-fold.
- Brown PelicanThe first is the immediate threat to individual birds from oil contamination. The first oiled birds are now being collected and...
Deepwater horizon incident (Update 10)
Unified Command continues with a comprehensive oil well intervention and spill response plan following the April 22 sinking of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles southeast of New Orleans. More than 1,000...
Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric heights
BOULDER—The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led...
Release of rhino poachers exposes widespread enforcement failures
Gland, Switzerland, 2 March 2010—The release of six alleged rhino poachers from custody two weeks before a meeting of the largest wildlife trade convention is emblematic of the chronic lack of political will to...
CCC Takes Action To Help Cold Stunned Turtles
As freezing winter temperatures put Florida's sea turtles at risk, CCC is stepping in to help conservation groups across the state deal with this crisis.
Sea turtles are generally attracted to Florida's warm waters and...
Japanese Foreign Minister Confesses to Whale Poaching
Japanese whaler harpoons minke whale 2009Japan’s Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada has confessed to what the rest of the world has known all along.
In an interview with The Australian newspaper and Australian Broadcasting Corporation Foreign...
More icebergs surround Macquarie Island
"From satellite images we can see there is a whole group of icebergs, roughly spread over an area of 1,000 kilometres by 700 kilometres, moving with the ocean current away from Antarctica," Dr Young...
Pew Laments Lack of U.S. Leadership to Protect Atlantic Bluefin Tuna at CITES
Washington, DC - 10/14/2009 - Joshua Reichert, managing director of the Pew Environment Group, today issued the following statement on the United States’ failure to co-sponsor a proposal for consideration by the Convention on...
Bleak future for Mediterranean mammals – IUCN
The latest assessment of Mediterranean mammals shows that one in six is threatened with extinction at a regional level, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.
The study, which assesses the status of...
Greenpeace granite shield protects unique marine life
Brussels/Sweden — Greenpeace activists sailed into Swedish waters today and began placing up to 180 granite rocks, each weighing between 0.5 and 3 tonnes, on the seabed in order to prevent bottom trawling in...
