Top photographers support shark conservation
Award-winning photographers from around the world have donated some of their best images to support marine conservation group Bite-Back.
A recent report published in Science magazine, entitled 'A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems', has shown that not only are more than 40 per cent of the world's waters 'heavily...
New evidence has been produced showing that Italian fishermen are still using drift nets in the Mediterranean more than five years after they were outlawed in Europe. Drift nets were banned because...
Five hundred tons of whale meat, part of the harvest from Japan's whaling operation in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, appears to have mysteriously disappeared. The likely explanation seems to...
Every year, more than 20,000 dolphins and small whales are killed in Japanese waters. One of the more unpleasant techniques used to do this is by drive hunts, where groups of dolphins are rounded...
Attempts by the UN to protect the world's deep-sea habitats have been thwarted by Iceland's determination to ignore the scientific evidence in pursuit of its own short-term goals. These fragile,...
BITE BACK 30 / 12 / 06
BITE BACK - Commercial Whaling
By John Nightingale
Iceland's announcement of its intention to resume commercial whaling, immediately followed by the slaughter of...
