Wednesday 28th August 2013 Virgin in deep water with ASA over dolphin claim A customer complained to advertising watchdogs after discovering that dolphins in a resort advertised by Virgin Holidays as offering Dubai’s “first and only marine animal rescue and rehabilitation facility” had neither been rescued nor rehabilitated. The dolphins are kept in what Virgin...
FUKUSHIMA RADIATION CONTAMINATING ALL BLUE FIN TUNA OFF CALIFORNIA COAST
Radioactive Bluefin Tuna Caught Off California Coast August 24, 2013 | Filed under: Energy,Environment,Headliner,Health,News,Uncategorized | Posted by: Ann Werner Every bluefin tuna tested in the waters off California has shown to be contaminated with radiation that originated in Fukushima. Every single one. Over a year ago, in May of 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported...
GREAT BARRIER REEF – DREDGING DAMAGE
Great Barrier Reef dredging could be more damaging than thought Oliver Milman theguardian.com, Thursday 15 August 2013 15.05 AEST A protest against dredging around the Great Barrier Reef. Photograph: Petrina Berry/AAP Dredging could be more harmful to the Great Barrier Reef than previously thought, a government-commissioned report has found, amid fresh warnings over the impact...
DOLPHINS HAVE INCREDIBLE MEMORIES
Dolphins have ‘longest social memory’ among non-humans By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News Kai was one of the dolphins in the study, he was 16 years old when this picture was taken Continue reading the main story Related Stories Dolphins ‘call each other by name’ Swimmers hurt by Dusty the dolphin Rare whales due...
GALAXY POLL SHOWS AUSTRALIANS WANT AN END TO INDIGENOUS HUNTING OF ENDANGERED ANIMALS
PRESS RELEASE AUSTRALIANS FOR ANIMALS INC. GALAXY POLL DEMONSTRATES NINE IN TEN AUSTRALIANS WANT THE NATIVE TITLE ACT CHANGED TO PROHIBIT THE HUNTING OF THREATENED AND ENDANGERED ANIMALS Australians for Animals Inc. commissioned a Galaxy Poll to establish how Australians feel about indigenous hunters being allowed to kill threatened and endangered animals. The results demonstrate...
HUMPBACK WHALE SNARED IN SHARK NETS FREED
Whale snared in Qld nets freed From: AAP July 26, 2013 12:58PM Rescuers are working to cut away nets wrapped around the fin and tail of a humpback whale off Noosa. Source: AAP RESCUERS have successfully freed a humpback whale caught in shark nets off Noosa in southeast Queensland. The net was wrapped around its...
AFA August 2013 Newsletter Available for Download Now
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DUGONG NUMBERS IN DRASTIC DECLINE
Conservationist demands end to dugong hunt as numbers plummet Brian Williams ENVIRONMENT REPORTER The Courier-Mail July 19, 2013 12:00AM A CONSERVATIONIST has called for an end to all indigenous hunting of dugongs until the species recovers as numbers dwindle dramatically. There are fears that the marine mammal population is in free fall as flood damage...
INDIGENOUS HUNTING – THE REALITY
THIS PHOTO WAS SENT BY COLIN RIDDELL TODAY. COLIN AND BOB IRWIN HAVE SET UP THE ANIMAL COALITION TO CHANGE THE NATIVE TITLE ACT TO PREVENT THIS DREADFUL SLAUGHTER. AUSTRALIANS FOR ANIMALS IS A DEDICATED MEMBER OF THE COALITION
WHALE STRANDINGS NOT EXPECTED TO INCREASE THIS YEAR
Experts don’t expect increase in whale strandings this year Hannah Busch – GLADSTONE OBSERVER 9th Jul 2013 5:00 AM Updated: 9:29 AM A dead killer whale being towed by a Marine Parks vessel near Fraser Island. Andrew Chorley UPDATE: A pod of killer whales remainsl in an area near Little Woody and Fraser Island on Tuesday...