Thai Rescuers Save Trapped Dolphin But Calf Missing
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Rescuers saved a rare  dolphin swept over a Thai beach by the tsunami which devastated  shores around the Indian Ocean, but failed to find her calf in  a filthy lake left behind by the giant wave.
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HONOLULU - An endangered monk seal drowned over the weekend after becoming trapped in an unattended fishing net off Oahu's Makua Beach. Another monk seal found partially entangled in the gill net on Sunday survived.
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BANGKOK - A UN conference last week banned commercial trade in the rare Irrawaddy dolphin, a move environmentalists said was needed to save the threatened species.
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Thai rescuers load empty coffins to be sent to Phuket at Bangkok military airport Monday, Dec. 27, 2004. Rescuers converged on beaches and islands Monday to search for survivors of earthquake-spawned tidal
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Knowledge of the ocean and its currents passed down from generation to generation of a group of Thai fishermen known as the Morgan sea gypsies saved an entire village from the Asian tsunami, a newspaper said Saturday.
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Four crew members were missing from a boat found adrift and two passengers, one of them a fugitive from Arkansas, were being questioned by federal authorities Tuesday after they were rescued in the Florida Straits near Cuba.
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BEIJING - The world's tallest man saved two dolphins in northeast China by reaching inside of them with his 3-foot arms to remove plastic they had swallowed, state media and an aquarium official said Thursday.
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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - One of six Newfoundland fishermen who was saved after a dramatic rescue at sea is attributing their survival to a swift response from search and rescue personnel and a united desire to leave no man behind.
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[World News]: Johannesburg, Dec 30 : A rescue mission to Thailand Wednesday brought home 68 South African survivors of the tsunami that has devastated the Southeast and South Asian coastlines.
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Five people from a missing Irish yacht have been rescued off southwest England after spending eight days in a life raft, the British coastguard revealed.
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MELBOURNE, Australia - A pet dog helped save a toddler from drowning in a rural reservoir, paramedics said Wednesday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 22 -- A lone tsunami survivor has been rescued from a remote Indian island, officials said Saturday, a rare moment of hope in the Indian Ocean since the giant waves struck on Dec. 26.
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WUHAN:  Chinese scientists said they will continue to search for the rare white-flag (baiji) dolphin although it is possibly extinct after a 38-day search failed to find any in the Yangtze River.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- A Swedish toddler was reunited with his weeping father in a Thai hospital yesterday, days after the 18-month-old was found sitting alone on a roadside in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster. The boy's mother is among some 5,000 people still missing in Thailand.
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A MAJOR rescue effort was under way last night to save the survivors of a second mass whale stranding in Tasmanian waters in 24 hours.
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Eighty exhausted snorkelers were rescued after the huge tsunami that hit southern Thailand swept them into a famed limestone cave killing a Malaysian couple.
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A major rescue operation begins after a yacht capsizes in the English Channel, with one crew member still missing.