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Shaping up for a fin-filled Shark Week

It’s Shark Week. You’re allowed to be excited. If you already like sharks you will doubtless be enjoying that the internet is awash with sharp-finned fun....
Posted by Willie - 5 August, 2013 - 09:30
Selfridges Project Ocean save our sharks display

Sharks need parks (and for you to stop rubbing them on your face)

Okay, so it’s unlikely you’ll ever see a hammerhead on a helter-skelter; it’s fair to say you won’t see many basking sharks see-sawing with sawfish; and...
Posted by Willie - 29 July, 2013 - 16:34
An orca performing

Blackfish: when whales turn killer

When I was little, I can vaguely remember a trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park for my birthday. This was back in the days when the world was black and white,...
Posted by Willie - 24 July, 2013 - 16:24
Sustainably caught fish in Hastings

'No one owns the fish of the sea': landmark ruling prevents ocean privatisation

This morning I was at the High Court in central London where a historic ruling was handed down on who controls the UK's right to fish. An attempt by big...
Posted by Ariana Densham - 10 July, 2013 - 10:32
Fin whale caught by an Icelandic whaling ship

Exposed: Iceland's whale hunt (graphic images)

Sorry these pictures are grim, but it's important we get the message out.This morning, one of our undercover photographers sent pictures showing a magnificent...
Posted by jamess - 19 June, 2013 - 17:35

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