Endangered Maui’s dolphins fighting for survival off NZ coast (Video)
Ben Brown reports
The plight of a critically endangered dolphin subspecies is expected to be one of the main talking points at the International Whaling Commission’s scientific committee currently underway in Jeju, South Korea …
BBC News – 10 June 2013 Last updated at 15:09 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-env…
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Pressure on New Zealand to save world’s rarest dolphin
by Neil SANDS
WELLINGTON, June 10, 2013 (AFP) – New Zealand is facing pressure to save the world’s rarest dolphin at an international scientific meeting underway this week in what conservationists say is a test of the nation’s “clean, green” credentials …
Sin Chew Jit Poh – 2013-06-10 12:58
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Blue whales ‘shot’ in the name of science
BILL MOORE
Shooting at blue whales from a small boat to obtain tissue samples was one of the tasks for Nelson-based marine scientist Carlos Olavarria in a breakthrough research voyage to the Ross Sea earlier this year …
Stuff.co.nz – Last updated 09:16 10/06/2013
www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/ne…
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Door open to Japan on whaling
By Claire Trevett
Foreign Minister Murray McCully has told his Japanese counterpart that he is hopeful Japan will be open to resuming talks with New Zealand to find a diplomatic solution to whaling – despite New Zealand’s decision to take part in Australia’s International Court of Justice case to try to force Japan to stop whaling …
New Zealand Herald – 5:30 AM Monday Jun 10, 2013
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/art…
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Gulf of Thailand in crisis as fish stocks diminish rapidly
By MCOT
BANGKOK, June 7 – The Gulf of Thailand and other Thai offshore waters face an ecological crisis as fish stocks have rapidly depleted due to commercial overfishing and the law cannot control the practice effectively, according to a civil sector seminar held by Greenpeace …
Pattaya Mail – Monday, 10 June 2013
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What’s behind PETA’s euthanasia program?
Teresa Chagrin
Norfolk
Ms. Chagrin is animal care & control specialist for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
There is a world of difference between providing a painless release from suffering for animals who are wracked with diseases and cancer, dangerously aggressive, elderly, and on death’s door (as PETA does out of compassion), and intensively confining, mutilating, and violently slaughtering more than 27 billion animals a year for greed and a palate preference, as the meat industry does [ “High Numbers: Animal Euthanasia By Peta,” May 24 – fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/20… ] …
Fredericksburg.com – Date published: 6/10/2013
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