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		<title>UN International Court of Justice Ruling&#8230;will it make a difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 10:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the UN International Court of Justice ruled on a court case brought by Australia against Japan in 2010, citing that Japan&#8217;s so called &#8220;scientific whaling&#8221; was commercial whaling by another name. The ruling has found in favour of Australia and considers that Japan&#8217;s insistence that their self imposed quotas of over 1000 whales to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Humpback Whales off Wexford Coast&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the closing stages of last week we received reports of Humpback Whale sightings off the Wexford coast&#8230; &#8230;since that time confirmed sightings have been made by observers of a number of Humpback Whales off the County Wexford coast indulging in what is a fairly common behavioural activity for this species &#8211; launching themselves high [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Dolphin Stranding at Reen&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after 9.45 this morning Nic Slocum of Whale Watch West Cork received a call from Ann Shaw to report what she thought was a young dolphin swimming in circles over the mud flats to the north of the spit in Castlehaven harbour known as The League. Responding immediately we arrived to find what appeared [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Resumption of Commercial Whaling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have heard it all now&#8230; The International Whaling Commission meet next week to discuss a potential deal whereby Japan, Norway and Iceland will be rewarded for consistently breaking international agreements and conducting commercial whaling for profit when a moratorium on commercial whaling is in place. The deal is that Japan will be allowed commercial [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Mass Stranding off Tasmania&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nic]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another mass stranding of pilot whales and some dolphin species has occured on an island between Tasmania and the Australian mainland &#8211; an area notorious for mass whale stranding. Nearly 200 animals came ashore late Sunday night and around 140 of these have already died. There is some hope that some members of the group [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Fishermen Trying to Save Dolphins&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nic]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fishermen are working hard off the coast of the Phillipines north of Manilla to save hundreds of dolphins that are accumulating in shallow water. Three animals that have already perished have been identified as Melon Headed whales a species well associated with stranding. Local marine biologists think they may have become disorientated by a recent [&#8230;]]]></description>
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