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…
17 October 2017 By Stéphanie Tremblay The differences between certain species are sometimes so imperceptible that they may be mistaken for one another. Pilot whales in particular resemble each other with a few…
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…
