Comments on: Festive Underwater Whale “Party” Discovered Near East Timor Caps Exciting Year in Whale News

By: sarita

sarita — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:23:40 +0000

You are quoted on this GVO piece on the whale meeting up in East Timor! http://tinyurl.com/aytfoy

Find more about it!
Cheers,
sara

By: Global Voices Online » “All whaling vessels please proceed to waters of East Timor”

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:43:11 +0000

[...] Levi Novey, however, is concerned: [...]

By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:07:19 +0000

Thanks to put this information together. It is amazing to find so many whales together. However it might be a sign of the unbalanced of their ecosystem and human impacts. I will love to have more information about this findings.

By: Edy

Edy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:05:37 +0000

The refered country in that news is my country. I’m timorese. Yes the marine environment in that area in certainly more secure, cleaner, and quieter for those mammals to gather even perhaps can be used as their marine habitat to reproduce and expand. Giving the fact that in that maritime area there is less fishing activity in industrial scale and it’s not considered strategically good enough for comercial ship’s and military navals passage hence almost inexistence in that area any noise that can be prejudicial for whales and other species. Therefore it’s a hotspot for those marine animals to live in abundance. Any habitat of other species when given time, space, less perturbance from human greedy comercial and military activities will certainly find its own way to live, survive, reproduce and expand in greater numbers to the benefit of all living things in this planet we call Earth.

By: sm hudson

sm hudson — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:34:52 +0000

Thank you for highlighting this Reuters news item and for providing a list of other articles that can be referenced on whale and marine research news. I will be interested to see whether the marine environment in this area is cleaner, quieter, safer for these animals to gather. It is a very exciting notion to think that we still have the opportunity to do right by these and other glorious creatures on our planet.