By KIRAN CHUG – The Dominion Post Last updated 05:00 29/06/2010 Researchers tracking a young great white shark are more concerned for its safety as it basks in Bay of Plenty than about a shark attack. The 2.8-metre-long shark, named Grim by conservation scientists, surprised researchers who are tracking him with his reluctance to follow [...]
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MON, 31 MAY 2010 6:00P.M By Charlotte Tonkin The Department of Conservation (DOC) is asking the public to be on the lookout and report any sightings of southern right whales, as they make their way north in their annual migration. The number of sightings doubled between 2008 and 2009 and DOC hopes this year will [...]
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KERI MOLLOY – Northland 27/05/2010 THE public awareness campaign launched by the Bay of Islands Maritime Park to highlight destruction of fisheries globally and the need to do something locally has picked up speed. A working group will meet tonight at 6pm at Island Life cafe, on the Paihia waterfront. Under discussion will be a [...]
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New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune has pleaded guilty in a Tokyo court to four charges, including trespassing and destruction of property, over his alleged attacks on a Japanese whaling vessel. The Sea Shepherd activist admitted in court today that he boarded the Shonan Maru 2 in Antarctic seas and pleaded guilty to two other [...]
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Scientists are using centuries-old whalers’ data from the southwestern Pacific and Tasman Sea to help better protect threatened whale species. American offshore whaling maps, log books and strike documents from the 1700s to the 1920s are being analysed to shed light on southern right whales and sperm whales in Australasia. Whaling was big business in [...]
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