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Success stories in wildlife and species protection are rather scarce. The more we are pleased to report good things from our monk seal conservation project before completing the research season, never before since the beginning of the project as many pups were born like this year! Can there be a more beautiful confirmation of the project as this?Help you with that success story continues and you will seal godfather / godmother seals.

Observations between hope and fear, but with the confidence that the dolphin hunt will end in Japan. Again, journalist Hans Peter Roth from now on the road for a month in Japan to watch the dolphin hunt and report for OceanCare. Location of the mission is even more Taiji, a small fishing village on the southern tip of Honshu, Japan Hauptinsl.

Plastic – the stuff that nightmares are? In any case, enough material for a Global Environmental Crime: The world's oceans today is six times more plastic debris than to find plankton.The Plastic AgePlastics can damage up to 500 years in soil and water to survive and some additives with the human hormone system.

At the International Whaling Conference IWC presents Denmark as one of the most problematic countries. “The delegates of Denmark put everything they can to obstruct transparency and non-governmental organizations to exclude from the negotiations,” says Sigrid Lüber who participates OceanCare for the conference.

Vegetables and fruits are usually carried in plastic bags home. But bad habits are discarded faster than plastic. Therefore you should use for your purchase 3BBags. A bag may, if he is re-used, to replace 1,000 plastic bags.The fine-mesh bags Free of pollutants produced from 100% polyester will be closed with a drawstring and are machine washable.

Whales and dolphins are charismatic animals and they have fascinated people since ancient times. Often they are therefore also “ambassadors” of the sea called. Unfortunately, life has become difficult for them. Noise and pollutant load their habitat and overfishing of the oceans takes its toll on marine mammals.

If the Swiss can decide today that there is in Switzerland a clear ban on the import of seal products.The Institute gfs-Zurich in February 2011 on behalf of the Fondation Franz Weber survey showed that 89 percent of respondents to the sale or trade of seal products are critical of or hostile to – and this without mentioning the current hunting methods The EU decided on 20 August 2010, an import ban on seal products came into force.

Eastern Canada experienced one of the warmest winter since records began. Along the coast the ice has formed only sparse. Seal mothers are hardly solid floes on which they can give birth to their offspring. Many young animals are born in the water and drown. Reason enough to ban hunting. But the killing goes on Canadian ice.

After several days “relative” calm has overtaken the brutal and bloody reality of this seemingly beautiful town in southern Japan again. Some 60 dolphins have in the past two days in the bay of death their life essence, shedding their blood. The horror of breathless agitation, panic at bay and make the brutality simply speechless.

After the death of Orca Nami in Nagoya has unearthed the autopsy literally frightening. The whale caught in Taiji had swallowed more than 80 kilos stones. The stones must have swallowed the animal in Taiji Whale Museum. There was Orca for over 25 years in a small lagoon held. The substrate is made of natural rocks and stones.