Dear ECS and MARMAM List subscribers, in the following please find some of the Cetacean news of week 38. News from September 11 to September 14 are added subsequently to the news of last week. (September 11, 2008) IWC issues media blackout on discussions to lift whaling ban - http:// news.mongabay.com/2008/0911-whales_hance.html Whales Had Legs, Wiggled Hips, Study Says - http:// news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080911-whale-legs.html (September 12, 2008) Greenland seeks whaling breakaway - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ science/nature/7611617.stm (September 14, 2008) Cape Cod provides a sanctuary for whales - http://www.thenational.ae/ article/20080914/FOREIGN/465407512/1014/SPORT (September 15, 2008) Oceans are 'too noisy' for whales - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ science/nature/7616283.stm Haifa researchers 'harvest' full whale skeleton for research and display - http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? cid=1221489039878&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull (September 16, 2008) Experts: Whale Songs Are Heard For The First Time Around New York City Waters - http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php? article_id=96170482105 RESEARCHERS fear tourists to Australia's dolphin-watching capital could be loving the popular marine mammals to death. - http:// www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,24359387-5014090,00.html (September 17, 2008) Taiwan Urged to Take Action to Protect Endangered Coastal Dolphin - http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1558316/ taiwan_urged_to_take_action_to_protect_endangered_coastal_dolphin/ Whale had lung problems, parasites, scientist says - http:// www.charleston.net/news/2008/sep/17/ whale_had_lung_problems_parasites_scient54740/ (September 18, 2008) New deal on power could help put Soko Islands dolphins in the pink - http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp? pp_cat=11&art_id=71826&sid=20449657&con_type=1 New Marine Mammal Center Formed At Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php? article_id=40928610735 In search of Moby-Dick - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/ 7621592.stm 11 Burning Questions with Dr. Thomas White - http:// media.www.laloyolan.com/media/storage/paper803/news/2008/09/18/News/ 11.Burning.Questions.With.Dr.Thomas.White-3437799.shtml Sea Shepherd anti-whaling activists investigated - http:// www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/18/ eawhales118.xml (September 19, 2008) Get ready to blubber in Whaledreamers - http:// www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/entertainment/film/get-ready-to-blubber- in-whaledreamers/2008/09/18/1221331007892.html Humpback whale spotted in the Channel - http://www.wildlifeextra.com/ go/news/channel-humpback.html Blue whales sighted off Irish coast - http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/ news/ireland-blue-whales723.html (September 20, 2008) Popular killer whale 'Ku' dies at Nagoya Port Aquarium - http:// mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20080920p2a00m0na006000c.html Trefriw man guilty of selling porpoise skull on eBay - http:// www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/conwy-county-news/local-conwy-news/ 2008/09/20/trefriw-man-guilty-of-selling-porpoise-skull-on- ebay-55243-21857662/ The five most endangered whales - http://www.independent.co.uk/ environment/nature/the-five-most-endangered-whales-935150.html Troubled waters: Did we really save the whale? - http:// www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/troubled-waters-did-we- really-save-the-whale-935193.html All best, Catharina Clausen ************************************************************************ ** baiji.org foundation Kanzleistrasse 127 CH-8004 Zurich Switzerland tel. (+41) 43 317 10 00 fax (+41) 43 317 10 09 mobil (+41) 79 281 18 65 catharina@baiji.org ************************************************************************ **