NANTUCKET — Michael Vienneau peers through a bright, white magnifying glass to the polished whale tooth in his hand.With a quick stroke of an X-acto knife, he cuts a fine line in the tooth. Then he cuts another line, delicately, and another. He rubs black ink across the marks and wipes away the excess. Revealed […]
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Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown arrives at Tuurangawaewae Marae Photo: Layla Bailey-McDowell / RNZ Cook Islands prime minister Mark Brown has announced the creation of a zone to protect the migratory corridors of the endangered Oceania humpback whale.Brown made the announcement at the UN Oceans Conference in Nice, France.“We can apply our traditional Ra’ui […]
Trading ivory from a hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, killer whale and sperm whale will soon be made illegal, the Government has said. The Ivory Act 2018 came into force last June to protect elephants and ban the import, export and dealing of their tusks.But it will now be extended to cover five more species after it […]
A 40-foot sperm whale washed up dead on the shore of the Oregon coast, and officials believe a ship was likely the cause of the endangered animal’s death. The sperm whale washed up on a beach just south of Fort Steven’s State Park in northern Oregon Saturday, according to the Seaside Aquarium. A video shared by the aquarium showed […]
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This article is also available in audio format. Listen now, download, or subscribe to “Hakai Magazine Audio Edition” through your favorite podcast app.Congratulations to Nick Rahaim for winning the second place award in the Outstanding Feature Story, Small category at the 22nd Annual SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment.As I coiled rope on the […]
Police are hunting a grisly trophy hunter who was caught on camera cutting teeth from the mouth of a stranded sperm whale under the cover of night.The unidentified man was photographed by a shocked onlooker as he hacked teeth from the jaw of a dead sperm whale by torchlight on Skegness beach in Lincolnshire.Sperm whales […]
