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300 Sea Turtles Found Dead on Indian Beach

300 Sea Turtles Found Dead on Indian Beach

As many as 300 olive ridley sea turtles and a bottlenose dolphin were found dead on Puri Beach in Odisha, India on Wednesday. While the exact cause of this horrific mass death is currently unclear, according to reports, the turtles might have been killed after being hit by trawlers who were operating illegally in the […]

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    Sea Shepherd Condemns Japan’s Plan to Slaughter 4,000 Minke Whales

    Sea Shepherd Condemns Japan’s Plan to Slaughter 4,000 Minke Whales

    Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd warned Japan against resuming “research” whaling in the Antarctic in defiance of an international court of justice ruling that it cease the practice and called on the Australian government to intervene. After a decade of activism by Sea Shepherd and other groups, Japan was forced to abandon its 2014-15 Southern […]

    Extremely Disturbing Video Shows Pilot Whale Being Tied and Drowned by Taiji Hunters

    Extremely Disturbing Video Shows Pilot Whale Being Tied and Drowned by Taiji Hunters

    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s Cove Guardian volunteers have captured extremely disturbing video of the horrific tethering and drowning of a pilot whale by hunters in Taiji’s infamous cove and the organization’s supporters are reacting with outrage on social media. The graphically violent video, which thus far has been viewed more than 250,000 times on Facebook, […]

    Algal Blooms Linked to Largest Die-Off of Great Whales Ever Recorded

    Algal Blooms Linked to Largest Die-Off of Great Whales Ever Recorded

    In Argentina baby whales have been dying off the coast in increasingly high numbers for the past decade and no one has known exactly why. “The average number of right whale deaths per year at Peninsula Valdes jumped more than 10-fold, from fewer than six per year before 2005 to 65 per year from 2005 to […]

    14 Elephants Killed With Cyanide in Zimbabwe

    14 Elephants Killed With Cyanide in Zimbabwe

    Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe is in the limelight again. The park, once home to Cecil the Lion, now has dead elephants on its hands. Eleven elephants were poisoned with cyanide in the park and three more were poisoned in a game park in Kariba in the north of the country just in the past few weeks, wildlife […]

    Supermoon Sparked Rhino Killing Spree as Poaching Numbers Skyrocket

    Supermoon Sparked Rhino Killing Spree as Poaching Numbers Skyrocket

    Sunday’s supermoon lunar eclipse was absolutely beautiful, but it was also deadly for some African wildlife. Eight rhinos were killed over the weekend at a South African park, Hluhluwe Game Reserve, according to wildlife officials. This puts the death toll for poached rhinos in the area up to 86 for the year. The total for all […]

    WATCH: Kayaking Duo Struck by Humpback Whale

    WATCH: Kayaking Duo Struck by Humpback Whale

    While kayaking in Monterey Bay, California, Tom Mustill and Charlotte Kinloch found themselves on the wrong side of a breaching humpback whale. One week and a viral video later, they sat down to share their side of the story. Mustill and Kinloch are lucky to be alive and unscathed after a harrowing experience with a […]

    #BearSelfies Force Colorado Park to Close

    #BearSelfies Force Colorado Park to Close

    If you’ve ever been to Yellowstone or other parks in the U.S., you’ve seen the signs telling visitors to keep their distance from wild animals. In Yellowstone, park authorities warn visitors to remain within 25 yards of bison and other large animals—and within 100 yards of bears and wolves. And yet, plenty of people just don’t […]

    30 Whales Have Died Off the Coast of Alaska and No One Knows Why

    30 Whales Have Died Off the Coast of Alaska and No One Knows Why

    Whales are dying off the coast of Alaska and no one knows why. Yesterday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officially declared the recent deaths of 30 large whales in the western Gulf of Alaska an “unusual mortality event,” triggering an investigation into the cause of the mass die off. NOAA defines an unusual mortality […]