People might preach about saving the whales, but here’s a video of a whale literally being saved from the fish nets tangled around it by five people on a boat who thought they’d encountered a dead whale. The beast then proceeds to spend an hour offering an incredible show of gratitude to its saviours.
Humpback whales
Taking on the tsar of all the oceans
I was not aware that fomer Environment Minister Barry Cohen was tsar of all the oceans. If so he was a very feeble tsar because for the last 22 years, the whales have been illegally slaughtered, writes Captain Paul Watson.
The Crikey Ethicist: Colin the baby whale and we the people
It’s sentimental to cry for a baby whale. That’s not because it’s sentimental to cry, but because the passion is not finding its real object. Colin was a symbol, writes Crikey ethicist John Armstrong.
State of the planet
Rich urged to bear climate change costs … Biological mechanism for enhanced carbon consumption in the ocean discovered … Japanese whalers won’t say if they’ll spare Migaloo … Ditching bicycles was a bad idea … Climate change to threaten a third of wildlife
