July 23, 2019
Stories tagged "dolphins"
May 24, 2019
Hawaiian tourists will no longer be able to swim with wild dolphins
For tourists visiting Hawaii, a swim with wild Hawaiin spinner dolphins (or “naia” in the Hawaiian language) has traditionally been a popular attraction. However, growing awareness of how human interaction can harm wild dolphins has encouraged regulators to enact...April 22, 2019
Pollution/Climate Change Complicate National Aquarium Dolphin Relocation
In 2016 the National Aquarium in Baltimore made a decision to retire its 7 dolphins and move them to a yet-to-be-built seaside sanctuary in Florida or the Caribbean. The decision was made after a change in public sentiment regarding captive whales and dolphins...February 27, 2019
Record number of dolphins beached on SoCal shores
In the past two weeks, 6 dolphins have become stranded on Southern California beaches and have left animal rescue organizations puzzled as to why. As the Pacific Marine Mammal Center said, this is a drastic uptick in stranded animals as during this time last year they...February 22, 2019
Environmental Groups Seek To Block Seismic Testing in the Atlantic
As part of their challenge to bar the government from drilling for oil and gas off the southeastern coast, a coalition of environmental groups asked a federal judge in South Carolina to force the government to suspend seismic airgun blast testing, which are used to...January 22, 2019
Florida Red Tide Takes Record Number of Turtles
The red tide that tormented the coast of Florida was extremely deadly for marine wildlife. The Miami Herald Tribune reported that the Florida Department of Fish and Game attributed the deaths of 589 sea turtles and 213 manatee deaths to this episode of red tide,...April 4, 2018