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Are noisy oceans to blame for beached whales?

Posted by Fiona Nicholls — 23 May 2016 at 12:36pm - Comments
Sperm whales beached on the Dutch Island of Texel, Jan 2016
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Sperm whales beached on the Dutch Island of Texel, Jan 2016.

Noise is the most invisible of all the man-made threats to the ocean, but to whales who ‘see’ by hearing, they simply cannot escape it.

Article tagged as: beached whales, beaked whale, CSIP, DCS, decompression sickness, deep diving, marine mammals, mass stranding, noise, noise pollution, oceans, pilot whale, Seismic, sonar, sperm whale, the bends, whales

Finding a sense of porpoise.

Posted by Willie — 19 May 2016 at 12:00pm - Comments
All rights reserved. Credit: Stefan Schorr / Greenpeace

Being a porpoise looks rubbish.

Dolphins look like they have fun. They even look like they seek out fun. Okay, the fixed grins make them seem perpetually happy but let’s be honest - when was the last time you saw a porpoise jumping out of the water or heard a friend gushing about an *amazing* experience seeing porpoises?

There’s good reason that porpoises don’t have the wow factor of dolphins: and it’s not just that they have bad PR people.

Article tagged as: bycatch, dolphins, dredging MCZs, fishing, harbour porpoise, International Whaling Commission, mexico, MPAs, noise, north sea, oceans, PCBs, pollution, porpoise, SACs, strandings, totoaba, UK Marine Bill, vaquita

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