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Rebuilding Neptune’s Navy: Captain Paul Watson post-Sea Shepherd

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“Build me an ark!” or at least help to buy one,  Watson tells supporters WOODSTOCK,  Vermont––Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson on September 13,  2022 thanked Sea Shepherd France,  Sea Shepherd UK,  Sea Shepherd Brazil,  Sea Shepherd Austria,  and Sea Shepherd Tahiti for “loyal and much appreciated support for the establishment of the Captain Paul […]

Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project celebrates a triple dolphin release in Bali

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Culminates 12-year campaign BALI,  Indonesia––Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project on September 3,  2022 celebrated the release into the open ocean of the bottlenose dolphins Johnny,  Rocky,  and Rambo,  after three years of rehabilitation and a decade-long campaign to free them from the captive dolphin exhibition industry. “We’re tracking them now,”  Ric O’Barry emailed to ANIMALS 24-7. […]

PIRATES! Captain Paul Watson goes down with the sinking Sea Shepherds

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Under new brass,  it isn’t even the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society any more             SOUTH WOODSTOCK,  Vermont––Japanese and Russian whales,  Atlantic Canadian sealers,  and oceans of marine poachers in other parts of the world never succeeded in sinking Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,  but the organization he founded in 1977 on […]

Getting Shelly Home, by Yasmin Mohamad (Wavy Adventures Book One)

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Illustrated by Stephen Bibb. 80 pages,  2022. $15.99 paperback,  ebook $7.99 Barnes & Noble,  $8.99 Kindle. Reviewed by Beth Clifton. Getting Shelly Home author Yasmin Mohamad believes that children learn best when they are having fun.  Mohamad wrote the  children’s book Getting Shelly Home with this in mind. Getting Shelly Home is the first of […]

Freya the walrus: sacrificed to save Norwegian whaling, sealing, & party in power

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When was the last time a wild walrus ever injured anyone? OSLO, Norway––Was Freya the walrus killed by Norwegian directorate of fisheries on August 14,  2022 in Oslo fjord to protect herself,  or to protect human swimmers and boaters,  as the Norwegian government alleges? Or was Freya really killed to protect the heavily subsidized Norwegian […]

Russian war on Ukraine kills dolphins, but fishing kills more

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The Black Sea was hard habitat for dolphins even before the shooting started ISTANBUL,  Turkey––That war kills animals as well as humans is scarcely in doubt,  but whether war is worse than peace for Black Sea dolphins may be disputed. Nearly three months after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24  2022,  evidence is surfacing along […]

Marineland of Canada & Mystic Aquarium in hot water over beluga deaths

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Two of five “healthy” beluga whales sold by Marineland to Mystic in 2021 have died & a third is reportedly ill MYSTIC,  Connecticut;  NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario––Two of the longtime most controversial marine mammal exhibition venues in North America are taking heat––again––after the deaths of two out of five beluga whales who were transferred from one […]

CITES doomed the vaquita, sold the elephant in the room, & worse

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U.N. Environment Assembly calls for yet another report on “the interlinkages between animal welfare,  the environment and sustainable development” after ignoring a mountain of others produced at least since 1950             LYON, France––This is not just a fish story,  nor just a fish-and-elephant story,  nor even just another story about the failures and shortcomings of […]

Could Lolita, permanently off exhibit, outlive the Miami Seaquarium itself?

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Terms of exhibition permit suggest the late Russ Rector was almost right in betting he would outlive the aging Miami Seaquarium,  even if Lolita did not MIAMI, Florida––MV Leisure,  the new owner of the 67-year-old Miami Seaquarium,  will not be allowed to exhibit the 56-year-old orca whale Lolita and her Pacific white-sided dolphin companion Lili as […]

Iceland fisheries minister hints she may pull the plug on whaling

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But whaling baron Kristján Loftsson, 80,  will not go down without a fight REYKJAVIK, Iceland––Iceland minister of food,  agriculture,  and fisheries Svandis Svavarsdottir on February 4,  2022 indicated in a guest column for the newspaper and news web site Morgunblaðið that she may pull the plug on the nearly moribund Icelandic whaling industry. But Kristján Loftsson, […]