Australia dolphins ‘saved’ by juvenile’s distress call
The distress call of a young dolphin has been used to lure a large pod of the animals to safety, after it appeared they would strand themselves in shallow water. Environment officials in Western Australia caught the juvenile and took…
Cayman’s stingrays will be protected
Ahead of plans for a major overhaul of the law to expand local marine parks, Mark Scotland, the Minister for the Environment, announced the Cayman Islands Government is proposing to make a minor amendment to the marine conservation law in…
West Bay and Cayman Brac fishermen oppose marine park proposals
At a press briefing last week, Gina Ebanks-Petrie, the Department of Environment (DoE) Director, revealed that all of the comments and submissions from the public regarding the proposals set out by the DoE to produce the enhancement of and expansion…
Mike Di Paola on the slaughter of turtles
From Bloomberg Before you see the turtles at the Cayman Turtle Farm on Grand Cayman, you hear them. The whoosh of breath when they breach the surface in their concrete pools resounds throughout the world’s only sea-turtle farm. That, and…
How the Mars Curiosity Rover Works
Amanda Wills, Mashable.com On a hopeful evening in August 2012, a roomful of NASA employees held their breath as they watched a rover named Curiosity attempt a landing that was no short of a miracle. After what they dubbed the…
Storms leave two dead in Georgia and Tennessee
A sprawling storm system has brought havoc to a swathe of the US, leaving two people dead and thousands of households without electricity. One person died when an apparent twister hit the state of Georgia, overturning cars on a motorway….
Unilever Partners with PSI and Facebook to Launch Waterworks™
Programme will deliver clean drinking water to communities in need Unilever, through the Unilever Foundation, in partnership with PSI (Population Services International) announces the launch of Waterworks™, a non-for-profit programme that will provide safe clean drinking water to communities in…
WSPA says Cayman Turtle Farm knew but denied turtles were suffering
New evidence reveals that popular tourist attraction, the Cayman Turtle Farm, has known of, but publicly denied animal suffering and disease since July 2012 Jan. 29, 2013: Two new reports confirm that animal suffering is a major issue at the…
“Would you eat diseased meat?” asks WSPA manager
by Colin Wilson At a lively discussion on Monday (28) I had with Rachel Alcock, Campaign Manager for Wildlife Trade, Neena Dhaun, International Manager for World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and Caymanian, TV personality, world champion freediver,…
