Plants and Animals

I asked Libby Eyre for some information on modern large mammal extinctions and this was her list in reply: Steller's sea cow, sea mink and Carribbean monk seals, the Thylacine, Toolache wallaby and lesser bilby, the Falkland Island fox, aurochs … [Read more...] about Large Mammal Extinctions: Libby Eyre

The Yangtze River Dolphin, also known as the baiji, is perhaps the most endangered of the world’s large mammals. The last confirmed sighting was of a single adult in September 2004. The journal Conservation Biology recently published three short … [Read more...] about How to Save the Baiji?

The Australian Federal Court ruled last friday that environment group the Humane Society International (HSI) could sue Japanese whaling company Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd to get an injunction forcing the Australian government to stop whaling within the … [Read more...] about Humane Society To Sue Japanese Whalers

According to German historian Klaus Barthelmess it is "Pure presumptuousness!" to suggest that world opinion is against whaling. He writes: "This opinion [against whaling] is almost exclusively found in densely populated urban Western societies, … [Read more...] about Whaling – Con & Pro: Klaus Barthelmess

Tourists on a whale watching expedition in Norwegian waters were not impressed when some eager whalers, taking advantage of the nice weather, harpooned one of the whales they were watching. Read the story in the Aftenposten, click … [Read more...] about Norwegian Whalers Show Tourists How It’s Done