Posts Tagged ‘Antarctica’
Journey to the Ross Sea #2
I remember staring up at the huge map of the world in my geography classes at school and seeing Antarctica represented as a featureless white strip of land running along the bottom of the world. It was only much later did I appreciate how immense the white continent actually is and recognise it as truly…
Read MoreJourney to the Ross Sea #1
In February 2015, Rob Lott, WDC’s Policy Manager, will be heading to New Zealand to join a ship’s expedition to the Ross Sea in Antarctica. Over the coming weeks he will provide updates through blogs and images of this fragile ecosystem highlighting the region’s landscapes and wildlife while also documenting the environmental threats the Antarctic…
Read MoreBritain’s Whale Hunters – an initial review of the BBC series
“You went away a boy and you came back a man”, so says one of the last of the British whalers interviewed for Adam Nicolson’s two part story telling the history of British whaling that aired for the first time on the 8th June. This is my review written as the programme aired, so please…
Read MoreThat‘s just “quackers” …
Back in the 1960’s submarines detected a bizarre “quacking” sound in the southern ocean and have been perplexed as to its origins ever since. The noise – nicknamed the “bio-duck” – was only heard during winter and spring months and was attributed to everything from ships to fish, but no-one really knew what was making…
Read MoreJapanese fleet sets sale for Antarctic whaling
AFP reports that two Japanese whaling ships and a surveillance vessel left Saturday for the annual hunt in the Antarctic Sea quoting Kyodo News. The three ships departed from the western port of Shimonoseki to join other ships to hunt up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and up to 50 fin whales through March, the news…
Read MoreAntarctic marine protection blocked by Russia
Russia representatives have blocked proposals to create the two largest ocean sanctuaries in the world in the Antarctic. The Russian delegation were taking part in this week’s special Commission for the Conservation on Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) meeting in Germany, which concluded today with no progress on two proposals to designate a 2.3 million square…
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