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 ‘sonar’
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 [...]
Coincidence, totally. Right.
Posted in ocean protection, tagged military, molokai, sonar, stranding, whales on July 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Monday = RIMPAC exercises end and another whale strands itself on Molokai beach. Think they’re related? “Any statements implicating sonar or RIMPAC activities are premature and speculative,” said spokesman Mark Matsunaga. Star-Bulletin story: http://starbulletin.com/2008/07/30/news/story09.html “Obviously I feel that there may be a correlation because, for one thing, this type of whale stranding does occur for [...]
Say NY Times and Star Bulletin: Navy should comply with Environmental Laws
Posted in ocean protection, tagged marine mammals, militarization, military, ocean, oceans, sonar, whales on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(graphic from abcnews.com) The Supreme Court has taken up the question of whether the Bush Administration can exempt the Navy from laws protecting marine mammals from sonar, and media is chiming in. Both the New York Times and Star Bulletin have come out recently in favor of upholding environmental law when it comes to Navy [...]
Bombs Away! RIMPAC’s Back
Posted in environmental justice, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged military, navy, NWHI, oceans, rimpac, sonar on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From Marti: RIMPAC officially started on Sunday, meaning you can expect beach closures, random explosions, mass strandings, and displays of excessive military force throughout the month of July in Hawaii. Remember, RIMPAC is the bi-annual demonstration of U.S.-occupation that brought us the “Hanalei Bay Incident” in 2004, when 150 melonhead whales attempted to strand themselves [...]
Federal Court Issues Injuctions, Requires Navy to Do More to Protect Hawaii’s Marine Mammals from Harmful Sonar
Posted in ocean protection, tagged kohala, military, navy, ocean, ocean protection, sonar, whales on March 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hawai‘i federal district Judge David A. Ezra today found that the Navy is violating federal law and enjoined it from carrying out its Undersea Warfare Exercises in Hawai’i’s waters without adhering to additional mitigation measures to protect marine mammals. The Navy is also required to take a hard look at the impacts of its high-intensity, [...]
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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