21 December 2017 The year 2017 is winding down. What were the major headlines from this year's News from Afield? [caption id="attachment_30002" align="alignright" width="250"] Pilot whales, 2017 © René Roy[/caption] We remember the…
20 December 2016 In its 12th season, 1-877-7baleine team expended considerable effort to process no fewer than 410 calls from citizens reporting dead or distressed marine mammals. A total of 164 cases of…
28 September 2016 Last August 29, a mother and daughter found a live harbour porpoise stranded on the beach in the town of Maria (Gaspé Peninsula) and took the initiative to push it…
24 February 2016 A study by researchers at the University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme, recently demonstrated the phenomenon of bioaccumulation of heavy metals in some twenty…
