Tag Archives: whales

Global News reports: The federal government has passed legislation that bans whale and dolphin captivity in Canada. The bill will phase out the practice of keeping captive whales, dolphins and porpoises, but grandfathers in those that are already being held at two facilities in the country. Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., and the Vancouver Aquarium in B.C. are the only …

The Guardian reports: Japan has launched a controversial bid to end the ban on commercial whaling, claiming that populations of certain types of whale have recovered sufficiently to allow the resumption of “sustainable” hunting. Representatives of Japan’s 70-strong delegation at this week’s International Whaling Commission [IWC] meeting in Florianópolis, Brazil, argued that the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling was intended …

Via Yahoo News: A couple miraculously escaped unscathed after a humpback whale breached and landed on their kayak. Footage taken from a Sanctuary Cruises whale-watching boat shows the beast emerging from the water in Moss Landing, California and landing on the couple – who disappear beneath the water. One of the kayakers, Tom, a wildlife film director, recounted the experience, …

Best comment on Reddit: “The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.”