Posts Tagged ‘Sri Lanka’
Stranded pilot whales refloated by Sri Lankan navy
A pod of around 20 short-finned pilot whales which stranded off Sampur Beach near Trincomalee on Sri Lanka’s north-east coast yesterday, have been refloated by the Sri Lankan navy with the assistance of local people. Navy spokesman, Chaminda Walakuluge, commented: “It was a delicate task to push the whales back without hurting them, but there…
Read MoreAn Armada of Whales: WDC in Sri Lanka
Date: March 24th 2015 Country: Sri Lanka. Location: 8°35’12.10”N 79° 32’ 11.84” E Last week I was in Sri Lanka to help coordinate WDC’s Project BLUEprint training workshop for the local whale watch operators in Kalpitiya in the northwest. The event was a great success and during the course of the day the local operators…
Read MoreBlue whale blues
Every whale death is a tragedy, but a dead blue whale is a big loss in every sense of the word. A young blue whale – its beauty and future potential cruelly extinguished – is arguably the greatest loss of all. I was really concerned, then, to hear a few days ago of another blue…
Read MoreOrcas of Sri Lanka
For this blog entry, WDC friend and colleague, Georgina Gemmell, introduces us to the orcas of Sri Lanka. Very little is known about the orcas that are sighted off Sri Lanka’s shores each year, with only a handful of annual encounters, many questions surround this secretive population. But as more people take to the water…
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