A European Union ban on seal products has been suspended, federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said in St. John’s Thursday.
Shea said the ban was suspended until further notice after Inuit leaders questioned the legality of the ban.
“I’m please to report that we have just learned this morning that the petition launched by the Inuit government [...]

SAO PAULO – Hundreds of penguins that apparently starved to death are washing up on the beaches of Brazil, worrying scientists who are still investigating what’s causing them to die.
About 500 of the black-and-white birds have been found just in the last 10 days on Peruibe, Praia Grande and Itanhaem beaches in Sao Paulo state, [...]

A young beluga whale at the Vancouver Aquarium died Monday night after its airway became blocked, officials say.
The aquarium’s veterinarian, Martin Haulena, said the female calf, named Nala, died at about 10:15 p.m. PT, and a full necropsy was performed overnight.
During the necropsy, staff discovered a pocket that had formed inside the whale’s airway. The [...]

One day after an orca at Sea World in Orlando dragged a female trainer into his tank by her ponytail, causing her death, a crack appeared in a huge aquarium in a Dubai mall filled with hundreds of sharks.
Dubai’s Gulf News reported that witnesses saw water leaking from the mall’s massive fish tank, which holds [...]

SeaWorld said Thursday that despite calls to free or destroy the killer whale that drowned its trainer, it will keep the animal but suspend all orca shows while it decides whether to change the way handlers work with the behemoths.
Also, privileged visitors who occasionally were invited to pet the killer whales will no longer be [...]