Yep, February was “Humpback Whale Awareness Month” in the states, but March is looking like a not-so-hot one for other cetaceans… Military sonar among suspected causes of mass whale stranding on the Tasmanian shore over the weekend. Mark Simmonds, of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society and an expert on cetacean strandings, said that two [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cetaceans’
Another Mass Whale Stranding
Posted in ocean protection, tagged cetaceans, military, ocean protection, sonar on March 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Dead Female Humpback found in Kekaha
Posted in ocean protection, tagged cetaceans, navy, ocean protection, sonar, whales on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Female humpback whale calf will be buried at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), perhaps appropriate–since PMRF is the place where much of the high intensity sonar activity in Hawaii is centered. The Navy 20 years ago placed sonar devices on the ocean floor off the west coast of Kauai to detect and track underwater [...]
GAO Finds Bush Admin Failed Marine Mammals
Posted in ocean protection, tagged cetaceans, monk seals, ocean protection, whales on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Allison Winter, E&E reporter: The Bush administration has failed to provide safeguards to protect more than a dozen stocks of marine mammals from injury or death in commercial fishing nets, congressional investigators said in a report released yesterday. The Government Accountability Office found that the National Marine Fisheries Service has failed to meet its [...]
Navy Ordered to Establish Sonar-free Zones
Posted in ocean protection, tagged cetaceans, militarization, sonar, whales on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via Diana LeBetz on Kauai, excepts from a SF Chronicle article: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 (02-06) 19:27 PST San Francisco — For the second time this week, a federal court found today that a Navy anti-submarine training program threatened to subject whales and other sea creatures to harmful blasts of sonar and ordered protective measures [...]
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