Archive for Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
Please Don’t Swim With Dolphins
Some readers may have seen the recent coverage in the national UK press regarding some interesting pictures taken by photographer Terry Whittaker (Flipping incredible: Photographers five-year tour of the British coast to capture amazing images dolphins at play):
UK Government trumpets green credentials at breakfast and authorises damage before tea
Exploration for oil and gas is likely to be allowed in the Moray Firth Special Area of Conservation. This threatens a vulnerable, unique group of bottlenose dolphins and casts a shadow over the Government’s recent pledge to give greater protections to UK sea life.
Urgent calls for UK marine conservation action in the face of expanding wind farms
With the announcement on the 10th Decemver 2007 of a huge increase in marine wind farms in UK waters, leading conservation group, WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, has renewed its call to better protect the UK’s whales, dolphins and other marine wildlife from this unprecedented industrial development.
Friendly dolphin maimed
A friendly, solitary bottlenose dolphin has had a significant part of her tail cut off, in what was almost certainly a collision with a boat propeller.
The fate of the great whales hangs in the balance
“Whale conservation currently faces the biggest onslaught since the ban on commercial whaling was put in place. Not only do pro-whaling countries want to lift the ban on whaling, but they also aim to lift restrictions on international trade in whale products – which, if allowed, would once again fuel an uncontrollable slaughter.” Sue Fisher – WDCS Whaling Campaigner.
