Full Coverage: Whales and Dolphins
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News Stories
- Gray whale numbers remain greatly reduced: study Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon, Sep 10, 2007
- Whale sanctuary proposal defeated at BBC - Wed, May 30, 2007
- Japan's whale cull offer rejected at The Guardian (UK). - Wed, May 30, 2007
- Deadlock at Greenland whale plan at BBC - Wed, May 30, 2007
- Anti-whaling lobby rebuffs Japan at BBC - Tue, May 29, 2007
Feature Articles
- Cultural claim to whale hunting at BBC - Tue, May 29, 2007
- Public thinks big, small in rescue effort at Contra Costa Times. - Sun, May 27, 2007
- Wall of noise for whales at San Francisco Chronicle - Tue, May 22, 2007
- Whales make a celebrity splash at Contra Costa Times. - Sun, May 20, 2007
- Back Talk: A long way from home at Sacramento Bee - Sun, May 20, 2007
- Whales in the Delta: From sincere to spacey, rescue ideas abound at Sacramento Bee - Sat, May 19, 2007
Opinion & Editorials
- Save the whales at sea, too at San Francisco Chronicle - Sun, May 20, 2007
- Whales getting attention as Delta smelt vanish at Sacramento Bee - Sun, May 20, 2007
- Big mammals, big story, big commitment by Bee at Sacramento Bee - Sat, May 19, 2007
- Whales, go home at Sacramento Bee - Thu, May 17, 2007
- Killer whales: is it all in the name? at The Los Angeles Times (reg. req'd) - Sun, Mar 04, 2007
- Watching for whales at Orange County Register - Wed, Jan 24, 2007
Related Web Sites
- International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (1946)
- full text of the agreement, plus all amendments to the treaty.
- International Whaling Commission
- provides the organization's history, including the 1946 convention that set it up.
- Center for Whale Research
- conducts and supports benign research on marine mammals of the Order Cetacea, primarily through long term photo-identification of individuals within populations.
- American Cetacean Society
- nonprofit group which works to protect whales, dolphins, porpoises, and their habitats through education, conservation and research.
- CETACEA
- provides background information on every species of whale, dolphin and porpoise.
- Greenpeace International: Whaling
- campaigning for observance of the international moratorium on commercial whaling.