Cetaceans

Around 150 melon-headed whales, a member of the dolphin family usually found in the deep ocean, beached in Japan on Friday, sparking frantic efforts by locals and coastguards to save them.
      

Shocking findings by a research conducted in the New Bedford Whaling Museum of Massachusetts  point to the fact that humans killed approximately three million whales in the 20th century.

The rate of extermination shows that between 1960-1992, the same number of whales were killed as those hunted in the 18th and 19th centuries, combined.

A marine biologist says that his university does not know the whereabouts of a dead two-headed dolphin photographed on a beach in western Turkey.
     
Mehmet Gökoğlu said on Aug. 12 that, based on photos, the mammal appears to be conjoined dolphins.
     

A draft code that has been submitted to Parliament as part of months of discussions by officials and nongovernmental organizations offers jail time for those who abuse animals.  

Turkish writer Buket Uzuner will submit 40,000 signatures collected via change.org, campaigning against dolphin parks, to the local governor of the resort town Bodrum on June 20.

A draft amendment to the animal protection law will no longer include a ban on dolphin parks and animal circuses, after a ruling party deputy introduced a notice demading the removal of the ban A ban on dolphin parks and animal circuses has been removed from a draft of the amendment on the protection of animals law, with a notice issued by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) d

A draft amendment to the animal protection law will no longer include a ban on dolphin parks and animal circuses, after a ruling party deputy introduced a notice demading the removal of the ban A ban on dolphin parks and animal circuses has been removed from a draft of the amendment on the protection of animals law, with a notice issued by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) d

The underground space of the Hub venue in the central Athenian neighborhood of Kato Petralona was packed with people. But they weren’t there for a fancy charity event or some conference about entrepreneurship – popular events these days.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the UN has decided that Japan must halt whaling activities in the Antarctic.

Authorities in Tokyo announced they accept the ICJ's ruling, which is legally binding.