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Saturday 19 September 2020
The northern bottlenose whales were found stranded earlier today.
They were first spotted off the coast of Cork in 1999.
The move has drawn widespread criticism.
Celebrities, including actor Leonardo DiCaprio and TV star Pamela Anderson, had called for their release.
The whales, Little White and Little Grey, were sold to Changfeng Ocean World aquarium some 10 years ago.
The whale was wearing a harness bearing the words “Equipment of St. Petersburg”.
A local councillor in Sligo said appropriate measures will be taken to investigate the matter and remove the whale.
The International Whaling Commission, established in 1946 to conserve and manage the world’s whale and cetacean population, introduced a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986.
Over the course of two years the obSERVE Programme, a government initiative, collected data through two projects.
The pair were filmed by a crew on board a fishing vessel on Saturday.
Since the beginning of August, a minimum of 19 Cuvier’s beaked whales washed up dead on the Irish coast.
Ireland’s Deep Atlantic sees underwater cameraman Ken O’Sullivan embark on a series of voyages out into the open North Atlantic in search of large whales, sharks and cold water coral reefs.
There are fears that the carcasses may attract sharks.
The whales were spotted just off Dingle Bay
The whales are able to say simple phrases like ‘hello’ and ‘bye bye’.
This is the highest number at this stage of the year since records began.
Many volunteers gathered on the shoreline broke down in tears on hearing the latest strandings appeared to be over.
Hope is fading for the around 100 whales still alive on the beach.
SeaWorld has seen attendance go down in recent years – in part as a result of revelations in the 2013 documentary Blackfish.
The footage was taken by a drone enthusiast off the south coast of Australia
Not a bad day at the office.
‘Dusty’ the dolphin has been in the headlines again this summer. But what makes a dolphin ‘solitary’ – and how do we manage them?
Two were safely re-floated, but a third looks unlikely to survive, the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group says.
The highest court of the UN ruled in March of last year that the research was a fig leaf for commercial hunting.
There are fears that another 90 whales will suffer the same fate.
It is the first since 2010.
Get him the Darwin Award.
Whale I never.
The pod of pilot whales have become stranded for a second time today.
Also a newborn humpback whale snuggling with its mum.
The southeast coast is the place to be for whale and dolphin watchers at this time of year…
One hundred whales died suddenly off the coast of Madagascar in May 2008.
The eleven person team – ranging in age from their early 20s to early 60s – are back on dry land after an epic voyage to Greenland and a turbulent return sea journey that “put manners on everybody”…
We’re going to need a bigger… everything.
When the whale voice comes in you may lose it.
A Japanese minister said criticism of whaling is “a cultural attack, a kind of prejudice against Japanese culture”.
A group of photographers had a pretty successful expedition off Hook Head at the weekend…
Two humpback whales and five fin whales were sighted off Hook Head over the weekend.
About a dozen whales are trapped in a vast stretch of ice in Quebec’s Far North, surfacing in a small opening for air.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
MORE THAN THREE-quarters of people would support the government looking into the prospect of a four-day work week, according to a new survey.
This means doing the same job for the same salary, but over four days rather than five.
There have been calls for this idea to be explored already and the Four Day Week Ireland campaign today released details on its public attitude survey conducted last month.
Two out of three respondents said a four-day work week is “realistic and achievable” in the medium term.
67% of employers said they support the idea and 46% said it would be “feasible” to trial in their workplace.
“The four-day week, with no loss of pay, offers the potential of a genuinely better future for workers and employers alike,” said Joe O’Connor, director of campaigning with Fórsa trade union.
What may once have seemed like a radical concept is now, for many, a reasonable and rational ambition. The Covid-19 pandemic has further disrupted societal and workplace norms, while illustrating the potential for very different models of work.
So today we’re asking: Would you support a four-day work week?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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