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 | The Cove
THE NEWLY released film The Cove is having a major impact on public opinion about the way people treat dolphins and other marine mammals. - 9/7/10 |
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| BITE BACK - Blue Fin Tuna
Imagine ordering a steak and, only after eating it, being told that it was in fact panda meat - 18/9/09 |
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 | Bite Back - Grey whale being pushed to extinction
One of the world’s most critically endangered whales,
the western Gray whale, is being given the final push towards extinction by the activities of three oil companies, BP, ExxonMobil and Rosneft. - 29/7/09 |
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| BITE BACK - Carbon Attack
Many things, such as overfishing and pollution, can adversely affect the health of our seas, but the huge release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will impinge on the oceans even more than the land. - 23/6/09 |
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| Biteback: Seahorses at Studland
Seahorses were filmed in British waters for the very first time just four years ago,
at Studland Bay in Dorset. - 15/5/09 |
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| Biteback: Commercial whaling
The new Icelandic government has announced that 100 minke whales and 150 fin whales will be killed this year in defiance of the moratorium on commercial whaling. - 14/5/09 |
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 | Bite Back: Year of the Shark
Concerns over
the decline in shark numbers have led to calls for 2009 to be declared the Year of the Shark. - 13/3/09 |
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| Bite Back: Protect our seas
This time our man writes about the Marine Bill and why the best solution is to create a whole series of marine reserves. - 5/3/09 |
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 | Bite Back: A whale carnage
Although listed as 'strictly protected', pilot whales are still killed by the people of the Faroe Islands, because it is a part of their tradition. - 3/3/09 |
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 | Bite Back: Blue Fin Tuna facing extinction
The news that bluefin tuna, one of the fastest fish in the sea, may soon be facing extinction in the Mediterranean should come as no surprise to European governments, as scientists have been warning of such an impending catastrophe for many years. - 29/1/09 |
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 | Biteback: The Tuna debate
The world’s appetite for tuna appears insatiable and tuna populations worldwide are in serious decline. - 9/1/09 |
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| BITE BACK - Palawan success
Politicians are a great deal better
at talking about environmental solutions than implementing them. - 7/11/08 |
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 | BITE BACK - Marine Conservation Society
Our oceans are awash with rubbish –
from the middle of the Pacific and extremities of the Southern Ocean through to our own once-pristine sands. - 6/10/08 |
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| BITE BACK - Marine Reserves
Politicians are a great deal better
at talking about environmental solutions than implementing them. - 16/9/08 |
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| BITE BACK - Sonar Strandings
The recent mass dolphin stranding near Falmouth in Cornwall, resulting in the death of 26 common dolphins, has focused attention on the affect of naval activities on cetaceans. - 4/9/08 |
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| Shark fisheries on the Great Barrier Reef
The recent announcement by the Queensland government that it plans to license dedicated shark fisheries in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Site has caused enormous controversy, and conservationists have called for the plans to be shelved. - 30/6/08 |
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 | Shark fishing in Vietnam and Tobago
The refrain of ‘The only sharks I saw on my diving holiday were lying in the bottom of a fishing boat’ seems to be becoming more common these days, and the experiences of two DIVE readers certainly confirm this. - 30/6/08 |
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| Captive whale sharks to become circus act
Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, the only facility outside Asia to keep whale sharks in captivity, has invited members of the public to come and, for a fee, swim in the tank with the whale sharks. - 30/6/08 |
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 | BITE BACK - The Marine Bill
A recent report published in Science magazine, entitled ‘A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems’, has shown that not only are more than 40 per cent of the world’s waters ‘heavily affected’ by human activities - 30/5/08 |
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| Galápagos sharks under threat
A decision by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, to repeal a decree that had forbidden the sale and export of shark products has put the shark populations of the Galápagos under threat. - 8/5/08 |
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 | The Dolphinella dolphins
London-based charity Marine Connection has compiled a report on the condition of the three dolphins held at the Dolphinella facility in Sharm El Sheikh - 3/3/08 |
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| Bite Back - Galapagos sharks in peril
FACT: When targeted by fisheries, shark populations decline rapidly as most species mature late, grow slowly and have very few pups. - 22/2/08 |
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| BITE BACK - Humpbacks hunted by Japan
Japan’s decision to include 50 humpback whales among the 1,000 whales they planned to slaughter in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary brought forth a stream of protest from across the world. - 15/1/08 |
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| BITE BACK - Soloman Islands export wild dolphins
Twenty-eight wild bottlenose dolphins have been exported by plane to Dubai from the Solomon Islands. - 31/12/07 |
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 | BITE BACK - Protection for porbeagle sharks
The European Commission has proposed that a zero total allowable catch (TAC) should be applied to porbeagle sharks, making it illegal for commercial fishermen to target them. - 29/11/07 |
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| BITE BACK - The Marine Bill
GORDON BROWN has begun his premiership by totally ignoring the most important environmental issue facing Britain today, the state of our seas. - 6/11/07 |
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| BITE BACK - The Sea of Cortez
The Sea of Cortez, once one of the ultimate destinations for divers, is now entering the final phase in the collapse of its marine life. - 13/9/07 |
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| BITE BACK - Commercial Whaling
The InternationaL Whaling Commission (IWC), which recently met in Alaska, has overwhelmingly upheld the ban on commercial whaling, rejecting last year’s St Kitts and Nevis Declaration, which called for an end to the ban. - 31/8/07 |
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| Bite Back - Angel Sharks
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation has declared the angel shark (see photograph) to be extinct in the North Sea. - 27/7/07 |
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 | Bite Back - Drift nets
New evidence has been produced showing that Italian fishermen are still using drift nets in the Mediterranean more than five years after they were outlawed in Europe. - 11/5/07 |
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| Bite Back - Shame of Japan
Five hundred tons of whale meat, part of the harvest from Japan’s whaling operation in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, appears to have mysteriously disappeared. - 4/4/07 |
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| BITE BACK - Alibaba Campaign
A campaign has been launched to stop Alibaba, a Chinese online marketplace, selling shark fins and other shark products. - 20/3/07 |
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| Bite Back - Petition to stop dolphin hunts
Every year, more than 20,000 dolphins and small whales are killed in Japanese waters. One of the more unpleasant techniques used to do this is by drive hunts, where groups of dolphins are rounded up out at sea and driven into shore.
- 7/2/07 |
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