http://www.savethewhales.com Information is the key Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:22:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We don't have the time to run the Savethewhales.com website. We therefore wish to sell it. It’s been fun. We advice you only to bid - if you have a valid offer. You can submit your offer and email - as a comment to this post. http://www.savethewhales.com/2007/11/26/savethewhales-is-for-sale/ We got many questions on how you can help, and make a difference. We found out that the most effective way to help - is to create awareness. If you are passionate about something special, then spread the word. Tell you friends about it and let them know how you feel. ... http://www.savethewhales.com/2007/11/24/how-to-help/ Norwegian whalers caught just over half their quota of 1,052 minke whales in 2007, a small rise from last year, but hunters and their opponents dispute whether regulations or dwindling demand cut back the catch. Norway and Iceland are the only nations to allow "commercial" whale hunts despite a two-decade moratorium ... http://www.savethewhales.com/2007/09/01/norways-whale-catch-up-slightly-quota-unfilled/ "We are very glad to see baiji still exist in the world," Wang was quoted as saying by Xinhua. The news comes shortly after China's leading expert on the baiji, Wang Ding, pronounced the species extinct following a fruitless 38-day search of the Yangtze by an international team of scientists. At the ... http://www.savethewhales.com/2007/08/30/extinct-baiji-river-dolphin-spotted-alive-in-china/ She's got a sparkle in her eye and a distinctive dolphin grin. But Winter, the year-old dolphin at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida, is missing a very significant part of her anatomy: a tail. The young bottlenosed dolphin lost her tail and joint when she was caught in a crab trap ... http://www.savethewhales.com/2007/08/27/121/ Undersea explorer Robert Ballard leans back and smiles at the screens arrayed above his desk. One displays a view of a remote operating vessel, another scans along a seafloor never before viewed by humans. It's the Black Sea, not far from Ukraine, a region long closed to outsiders and now yielding ... http://www.savethewhales.com/2007/08/27/scientist-tests-system-for-ocean-vessel/ Thus far this year, there hasn't been a decline in gray whales but this is the scrawniest they have been since malnourishment and disease claimed a third of their population in 1999 and 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported. Scientists suspect the same thing may be happening now that triggered the die-off ... http://www.savethewhales.com/2007/07/23/skinny-gray-whales-swim-pacific-coast/ LOS MAITENES, Chile (Reuters) - Chilean teenagers on a field trip have found what experts say could be a treasure trove of fossils from whales which died millions of years ago. Teenagers from a school in Concon, a town on the Pacific coast, found the fossils last month in the hills ... http://www.savethewhales.com/2007/07/23/chilean-teenagers-find-trove-of-whale-fossils/ When it comes to catching squid, which have a keen sense of smell, very good eyesight, and can squirt dark ink to hide their escape, humans could learn a lot from whales, but whales aren't talking. The numbers of squid that are eaten by sperm whales far exceed those harvested by ... http://www.savethewhales.com/2007/07/23/scientists-cant-figure-out-how-whales-catch-squid/ When a confused whale swam up the Thames to its death last year, marine biologists blamed seismic surveying for sending it off course. Now a listening system that searches for whales and dolphins could help save hundreds of such creatures. The equipment, developed by scientists at the University of Plymouth, scans for ... http://www.savethewhales.com/2007/05/05/listening-ships-to-save-whales-from-beaching/