'Friendly' Killer Whale Damaging Boats
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GOLD RIVER, British Columbia - A "playful" killer whale who likes to frolic alongside fishermen has damaged three boats in separate incidents in recent weeks.    Luna, described by fishermen as a friendly 5-year-old whale, has made frequent contact with people and boats in waters off Vancouver Island, about 125 miles north of the U.S...
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A ship carrying militant anti-whaling activists was due to head back to Antarctic waters Thursday to resume harassing Japanese whalers, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The International Humane Society is taking a Japanese whaling company to court in Sydney on Tuesday, accusing it of killing whales in an Australian whale sanctuary.
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Australia's government has released graphic photographs and video footage a whales being harpooned and dragged aboard a Japanese ship
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Officials hear of a previous near-capsize incident involving the ill-fated oil vessel Bourbon Dolphin.
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Humpback whales are safe Â at least for now. Giving in to U.S. pressure and worldwide criticism, Japan's government on Friday announced a whaling fleet now in the Southern Ocean for its annual hunt will not kill the threatened species as originally planned. The fleet will, however, kill some 935 minke whales, a smaller, more plentiful species, and 50 fin whales.
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Killer whales get the superstar treatment every summer off the Washington coast, where tourists fill up whale-watch boats to catch a glimpse of the majestic animals. Now, researchers are studying whether all the attention could be a bad thing.
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A Japanese whaling ship issued a distress signal from Antarctic waters on Monday, after it collided with a protest boat trying to save whales from slaughter, according to activists.
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By TERENCE CHEA RIO VISTA, Calif. - Encouraged by the response of two injured, wayward whales to the spray of a fire hose, marine scientists plan to use more hoses when they resume efforts next week to herd the pair back out to the Pacific Ocean.
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A Japanese whaling ship sends up a distress signal after colliding with a protest boat in the Antarctic.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--For the past week, residents of the Bay Area have been transfixed by the plight of the two injured humpback whales that got lost in the fresh waters of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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Near 100 whales and dolphines have commited mysterious &quot;mass beaching suicide&quot; from last week on Australia&#39;s south coast.
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By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Jun. 27--All ships entering the Great Lakes would be required to treat their ballast water to kill invasive species starting in 2009 under a bill that passed a U.S. House Subcommittee on Tuesday.
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Washington state's resident killer whales, with two newborns in tow, dodged a potentially lethal roadblock in their voyage south to feast on a healthy run of chum salmon, experts say.
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SYDNEY - Humane Society International opened legal proceedings in Australian Federal Courts on Tuesday against a Japanese whaling fleet that it charges has killed more than 400 minke whales within Australia&#39;s whale sanctuary over the past four years.
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An often-fatal bacterial disease that has sickened hundreds of sea lions on the Central Coast is seen as a threat to humans and other mammals as well.
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Rescuers have saved at least 12 pilot whales that beached themselves on Maria Island, off Tasmania&#39;s east coast. It has been an exhausting 24 hours for National Parks and Wildlife officers in Tasmania after mass strandings at Maria Island and King Island.