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No import of seal products in Switzerland: Petition launched!

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OceanCare and the Fondation Franz Weber, launching a petition today with a renewed appeal to the Swiss Parliament, import and transit of all seal products from commercial seal hunt verbieten.Die EU has adopted such a ban a year ago and 20 August 2010 brought into force. The National Council wanted to take this EU legislation, the Senate refused to do so in the autumn session of 2010, however, just as with 19:16 votes.


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New documentary on the endangered vaquita porpoise

Recently appeared a new documentary that examines the critical status of the rare and highly endangered vaquita porpoise. The film, titled “Vaquita – Last Chance for the Desert Porpoise,” is available in English and Spanish and can be downloaded free http://www.vaquita.tv.Was realized the documentary earthOCEAN TV with the support of The Ocean Foundation, United States Marine Mammal Commission, NOAA Fisheries – Southwest Fisheries Science Center in the U.

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Day Book (t) – Entry 13

There were probably still more than 40 bottlenose dolphins, which together drove the fighters yesterday in the bay. Maybe 50-60. Others insist consistently on 80th Maybe I underestimated the number of real, or a part of the animals were crammed with nets in the small bay of death, where they remained invisible to us.

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Day Book (t) – Item 8

Rain Finally: The sound is strangely familiar and yet almost unfamiliar. Early morning rain drumming on the rooftops of Tokyo's suburbs. At last! After a record hot and dry summer rain falls. Even in September it was unusually hot and humid – but without rain. Every day 35 degrees. And when you woke at night bathed in sweat by three, the outdoor thermometer showed 28 degrees .

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Day Book (t) – Entry 3

About 50 people from different countries here in Tokyo, until 1 September arrived to support Delphi protector Ric O'Barry in his fight against the dolphin hunt in the “Season One by Oscar.” This morning, the first of which now only time left for Taiji. Of course, we went immediately after arrival to the Bay.

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Parthenogenesis (virgin birth) in sharks

Parthenogenesis, also known as parthenogenesis, is known especially for insects and lizards. But in sharks? Doug Sweet and Kevin Feldheim with DNA tests could prove that two young bamboo shark in 2002 in Bell Isle Aquarium in Detroit came to the world that are actually incurred by parthenogenesis.

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Canada wants to kill gray seals on Sable 220.000 Iceland

The Canadian Department of Fisheries DFO is looking for new ways to the population of gray seals on Sable Iceland, to decimate a small island southeast of Halifax. On this main breeding ground for gray seals live around 300 000 animals that eat too much fish according to the DFO, and therefore damage the fishing industry.

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The moratorium on commercial whaling remains!

What has been signed yesterday evening, this morning has been confirmed at the meeting of the IWC. The compromise proposal which would have led to the lifting of the whaling ban has failed. The commissioners of IWC member countries could not agree even with the two-day closed-door negotiations on a compromise.

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Fourth day of the conference report

Thanks to my jetlag I'm always up early and start on that clock out of 5 in the morning to work. This helps me not to be overwhelmed after my return from the mountain pending. Today it is also good for another reason, that I early on-line bin, because I get the delegates to the Mesikanischen government's invitation, his input in a statement to be delivered to accommodate even underwater noise pollution as an environmental factor in the outcome report of the meeting .

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Fisheries and noise threaten whales

Stralsund held from 22 place until the 03/24/2010 Meeting of the European Cetacean Society. There are 450 whale researchers advise from 34 countries – including Silvia Frey OceanCare – on current research findings. Fishing, underwater noise, pollution and climate change increasingly threaten whales globally.

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