Ideally, an icebreaker would come clear a path for the whales, he said earlier in the day, but crews are a 36-hour trip away.
Two of the three whales made it to open water after rescuers used chain saws and de-icers from a Wisconsin company to create more breathing holes for the whales and a Soviet icebreaker cleared a path through the thickest ice.
Not satisfied with these results, the green lobby has prompted the National Marine Fisheries Service to further cut water supplies, in part to improve the conditions for whales and other species out in the ocean.
Atop a bluff and offering nose-bleed views of the major highway for gray whales -- aka the Pacific Ocean -- is this Cape Cod-style seaside estate from 1901, with slatted ceilings, vintage photographs, and piles of firewood near the basement.
The Institute for Cetacean Research harvests whales within the Southern Ocean Sanctuary, fifty million square kilometres designated a protected area by the I.
The peninsula is a haven for wildlife: humpback whales in the crystal blue water, elephant seals beached on Pleneau Island, squawking adelie, chinstrap and gentoo penguins, and wheeling cormorants, petrels and terns.
This video from Visit Norway shows divers exploring these waters, on the lookout for killer whales.
What will that mean for the salmon, the whales and the rest of Sakhalin's beautiful but fragile flora and fauna?
The idea of rights for whales is certainly a provocative one, and is reminiscent of the Australian philosopher Peter Singer's proposal that human rights be extended to the great apes chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans.
The Japanese fleet is run by the government-subsidized Institute for Cetacean Research, in Tokyo, but the institute has produced virtually no research of any regard, and all the whales that are purported to be under study are also butchered for the purpose of selling whale meat to the Japanese public.
It makes sense that the prince would have an affinity for the game: his father is the inspiration for a bit of beach volleyball slang "Prince of Whales" that is used to describe players who spike the ball forcefully.
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If we can make homes for whales and dolphins, the ocean may just have a chance.
To help advance the creation of MPAs, we devised the idea of "homes for whales and dolphins".
Here, humpback whales frolic for much of the winter months and four species of dolphin can be seen year-round.
After the lumber industry depleted local forest, the area became designated a protected national park with a coastline famous for spotting resident beluga whales and other species that migrate here to feed in the nutrient-rich waters.
Organizations like Sea Shepherd, Greenpeace, The International Fund for Animal Welfare, the Humane Society and -- yes -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals all campaign in various ways to stop the decimation of whales and other intelligent creatures of the sea.
The waters also support the UK's only resident population of killer whales and two feeding and breeding hotspots for basking sharks, the world's second biggest fish.
The whales are known as "canaries of the sea" for their high-pitched chirps, but while a number of anecdotal reports have described whales making human-like speech, none had ever been recorded.
"It could have walked out of here days ago with a perfectly adequate quota to meet the subsistence needs of indigenous communities in Greenland for the next six years, but it was prepared to lose everything for a handful of extra whales that, our recent surveys show, could well end up on the menu in tourist restaurants".
Research reveals that the noise from oil and gas exploration has driven the whales into deeper waters making it hard for their calves to feed and thrive.
The whales are all the talk that last night for the eight guests at dinner.
The new northbound lane would also be extended miles beyond the shelf, keeping vessels sailing in a straight line for a longer time, rather than allowing them to disperse where the whales congregate.
Those that did not have limits placed upon access would not be around for Ostrom to study: like dodos, passenger pigeons and damn nearly the whales and buffalo.
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For instance, the idea that the Navy's sonar systems are harming whales is about as well based in fact as the 1960s fear that fluoride in our water was poisonous.
The Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino in Mexico is a haven for Pacific gray whales.
The hard beaks of giant squid, a main source of food for sperm whales, have often been found inside lumps of ambergris.
Japan argues the program is important to estimate the biological parameters which could be used for management, in particular natural mortality, and the elucidation of the role of whales in the Antarctic ecosystem.
We call on the government of Japan to withdraw its motion to abolish this unique protection for whales.
Their pioneering study of blue whales in this area reveals its significance as breeding and feeding grounds for the largest creature on earth.
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But luckily for the larger whale, the nearby orcas were Northern Residents that eat fish, not other whales.
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