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"Sea No Evil" Art Auction for Sea Shepherd with Shepard Fairey and Captain Watson
More than 100 artists have donated art to benefit the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's efforts at the fifth annual Sea No Evil Art Show featuring works by Gary Baseman Jeff Soto,, famed street artist and poster designer Shepard
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You Don't Stand By Watching Whales Getting Killed & Just Hang Banners, Take Pictures: Paul Watson
The new season of Whale Wars has just started on Animal Planet (new episode this Friday...), so what better time to highlight a quick video interview Andy Revkin from Dot Earth just did with Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson. While Watson hits many of
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Russia Restricts Oil Exploration To Protect Critically Endangered Grey Whales
A hopeful update to a story TreeHugger has written about for nearly a year: Critically endangered Western grey whales, threatened by oil exploration near Sakhalin Island, have been granted a reprieve of sorts.
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The Week in Animal News: Tiger Dad Saves Cubs, Monkey Bodyguards, and More
Let's be honest: A Tiger dad is usually a bit of a deadbeat. But for what may be the very first time, officials from a wildlife preserve in India have observed a male tiger that has adopted a litter of cubs left orphaned and alone when their mother died
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Volunteers Prevent Over 100 Whales From Beaching
Late last week, after more than a hundred whales threatening to beach themselves were spotted off the coast of an island in Scotland, dozens of locals worked together to save them -- and their efforts seem to have worked. Thanks to
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Chemical-Laden Dolphins Show Us Where It's Unsafe to Fish
We might be able to take a cue from whales and dolphins on where to hang "Do Not Fish" signs. While researchers have known for awhile now that the blubber of these animals contain toxins, they're now seeing the those
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Are Humans To Blame For Mass Whale Strandings?
The Guardian has a good article questioning how humans are to blame for mass whale strandings. It's a topic we discuss often on TreeHugger -- especially recently as scientists witness more frequent strandings, which has them, and us, deeply concerned.
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The Week in Animal News: Animal Moms, Zombie Ants, and More (Slideshow)
For a species on the brink of extinction, some animal moms, including this momma orangutan, are particularly important.
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The Week in Animal News: Animal Moms, Zombie Ants, and More
For a species on the brink of extinction, some animal moms, including this momma orangutan, are particularly important. We also have a report on the shocking fungus that turns ants into zombies, songbirds that can't understand each other, whale strandin
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More Frequent Whale Strandings Has Experts on Edge
In the last few years, there has been an unexplained spike in the number of whales washing ashore. While the National Marine Fisheries Service has declared an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico,
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Whales' Amazing Navigation Skills Puzzle Scientists
Without the aid of maps, roadsigns, and GPS equipment, many human travelers would have a hard time reaching their destinations, but such unassisted journeys are no problem at all for humpback whales. Researchers studying
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Researchers Find the Tin Pan Alley of the Whale World
Whales sing their haunting melodies across miles of ocean in order to attract a mate -- but as it turns out, those songs aren't quite as original as you might have thought. According to researchers studying whale culture, evidence
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Best of Green: Travel and Nature
What's the best twitter feed by (yes, you read that right) an endangered animal? What's the most intriguing new species, the most powerful nature documentary, the eco travel tools that you must have before you hit the road? It's hard to narrow down the b
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50 Times More Whales & Dolphins May Have Been Killed By Gulf Oil Spill Than Officially Reported
That potential evidence against BP may be much worse than previously reported: A new paper in Conservation Letters (via Nature.com) claims that the number of dolphins and whales killed in the Gulf Oil Spill could be
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Each Dead Dolphin in Gulf of Mexico Treated As Potential Evidence Against BP
More on the abnormally high number of dead baby dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico: Huffington Post reports that the official US government investigation into what's behind the deaths--suspected, not unreasonably at first glance, to be linked to the BP oil
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The Week in Animal News: Polar Bears Eat Spy Cams, Well-Endowed Frog and More
What happens when you place spy cams all over the arctic in order to track polar bears? Well one might become a polar bear snack. We also have news on a very well-endowed frog, rescue efforts in place for Japan's pets, barking dogs facing the death penal
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Dead Baby Dolphins in Gulf of Mexico Were Stillborn
An update on why dozens of baby dolphins are washing up dead in the Gulf of Mexico: The Sun Herald reports that federal officials have determined that some of the infants were stillborn--an important finding in discovering the exact cause of the
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Moby Dick More Than A Book? Sperm Whales Might Have Individual Names
I have to say this is one of the most fascinating stories I've seen in a while: Wired reports that in a February issue of Animal Behavior biologists discuss their preliminary research findings suggesting the sperm whales
