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Japan Set for Whale Hunt Despite Earthquake and Tsunami

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From Radio New Zealand. The ABC reports five crews from the town of Ayukawa have joined the hunt, even though the tsunami destroyed Ayukawa Whaing's storage facility and carried its fleet of three whaling vessels hundreds of metres inland, where they remain. Nothing stops the Japanese whalers!

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Federal Public Lands: Pacific Seabirds

10,000 Birds

Ashy Storm-Petrel : Approximately 50% of the world’s Ashy Storm-Petrels breed on Farallones NWR , a group of rocky islands 30 miles from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. A handful of Hawaiian Petrel chicks were recently translocated to Kilauea Point NWR on Kauai. Channel Islands NP , also in California, supports most of the other 50%.

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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Birds of California , the new volume in the ABA series, arrived the day I returned. Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast is designed to be a quick, handy resource for use on whale watching and one-day pelagic trips. Composite group photographs and brief text descriptions present the core information, the species accounts.

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The Ross Sea – the Last Intact Marine Ecosystem on Earth – and I

10,000 Birds

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. Consequently, the Ross Sea has become a focus of numerous environmental groups who have campaigned for a world marine reserve.

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Sperm Whales in Kaikoura

10,000 Birds

What put this once small fishing town on the map was not birds but mammals, specifically whales and dolphins. The reason Kaikoura is such a great place to see albatrosses and whales is one and the same, and the same reason indeed that Monterrey in California is a great place to watch whales and albatross.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Elephants, whales, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and alligators use low-frequency sounds to communicate over long distances, often miles; and bats, dolphins, whales, frogs, and various rodents use high-frequency sounds to find food, communicate with others, and navigate. A Grateful Whale.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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The birds had evolved without a predator like this, and with the new snake having no predators, it had no problem decimating the island’s birdlife. there is actually a group dedicated to saving lobsters!), Obviously its perfectly fine to concentrate on one particular problem (i.e.