This is effective. The numbers prove it." Government takes 'unprecedented' step to protect threatened species — here are the ...

"This is at the heart of the difficult compromise between exploitation and protection." Officials enforce unprecedented ban ...

The charity’s founder and chair, Christine Rose, said the installation of the 20 dolphins on New Brighton beach made the ...

WASHINGTON— A report issued today by conservation groups finds that 11 nations have at least some fisheries that fail to meet U.S. standards for preventing whale and dolphin bycatch. Entanglement in ...

These animals are unintentional “bycatch” of commercial fisheries and either drown or are tossed overboard to die from their injuries. Bycatch is the greatest conservation threat to marine mammal ...

WE DEPEND ON RIVER DOLPHINS Where freshwater dolphin populations are thriving ... This is because pollution, dams, shipping and bycatch have taken their toll on this iconic species. Gain Political ...

“Bycatch not only affects marine mammal populations but also raises serious animal welfare concerns,” said Georgia Hancock, program director and senior attorney for the Animal Welfare ...

The Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii) is the most endangered of the ... The major threat to the dolphins is bycatch by local gillnet fisheries. Fisheries also deplete the dolphins’ prey. Other ...

The Franciscana dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei ... the most threatened small cetaceans in the region, primarily due to bycatch in gillnet fisheries, habitat degradation, and limited population ...

though cameras on fishing boats now reveal a 600% increase in dolphin bycatch compared with before cameras. So today, Saturday 1 February, Māui and Hector’s Dolphin Defenders, staged a haunting ...