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• Gray whale swims near boats in Californian harbour - video

  Video (35 sec), 10 Sep 2014:

  A gray whale is spotted in California's Marina Del Rey Harbour on Tuesday evening

• Blue whales return in near historic numbers to the waters off California

  5 Sep 2014: Largest animals on earth now number at about 2,200 in the Pacific waters near the US west coast, though boats continue to strike them

• Japan set to wade into diplomatic row by bypassing ban on whaling

  4 Sep 2014:

  Tokyo poised to submit plan for 'scientific' programme of whale slaughter in Antarctic to get round ban on commercial whaling

• Charlie Sheen says Danish authorities are complicit in pilot whale ‘slaughter’

  1 Sep 2014: Actor had donated boat used by activists who were arrested after trying to save pod of 33 pilot whales in Denmark’s Faroe Islands

• Puget Sound's endangered killer whales continue decline

  31 Aug 2014: Number of whales drops to 78, a figure not seen since 1985, with two deaths this year and no new calves since 2012

• Been whale watching lately? Scientists want your snaps to tell migration story

  27 Aug 2014:

  Australian researchers want tourists to send in photos of flukes so they can track eastern humpback whale movements

• Norway whale catch reaches highest number since 1993

  25 Aug 2014: Catch of 729 is the highest since Norway resumed commercial whaling despite a worldwide moratorium
  

• Do Seaworld’s woes show that tourism and marine life cannot co-exist?

  Guardian Professional, 22 Aug 2014: Seaworld’s shares have dropped dramatically after negative publicity about its treatment of an orca, showing that marine life and tourism are uneasy bedfellows

• Consumers win at SeaWorld but only when Wall Street backed them

  14 Aug 2014: SeaWorld plans major changes in how it treats and keeps killer whales, after major losses seem to necessitate action
  

• Whale carcass washes up on Rio de Janeiro beach - video

  Video (1min 08sec), 12 Aug 2014:

  The 12-metre carcass of a humpback whale has washed up on a beach in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro

• Cleaner New York waters see surge in whale and shark numbers

  10 Aug 2014: Cleaner waters believed responsible for rise in ocean giants as humpbacks and great whites abound off NY and NJ coast

• Shark nets should come down to save whales, says Australian expert

  24 Jul 2014: A young whale tangled in a shark net off a Gold Coast beach survives after a newborn drowns as Sea World calls for net review

• Conservationists call for Canary Islands whale sanctuary instead of oil scheme

  23 Jul 2014:

  World Wide Fund for Nature launches campaign as Repsol announces that exploratory drilling could start in October

• Whales under threat as US approves seismic oil prospecting in Atlantic

  19 Jul 2014: Official study estimates 138,000 sea creatures could be affected by sonic cannons to be used in ocean from Delaware to Florida

• The week in wildlife - in pictures

  18 Jul 2014: Ghost bats, beaver babies and desert elephants are among the pick of this week's images from the natural world
  

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