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	<title>Whale Watching News &#38; Expert Views</title>
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		<title>All this and more in beautiful Baltimore and the Islands&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2014 11:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought my sightings of blue whales off Baja this past February 2014 were insurmountable&#8230;but I always forget just how fabulous Spring wildlife sightings are off gorgeous Baltimore and the Islands. After her routine winter refit and servicing our trusty ship Voyager was back in the water early April and since then we have had [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>2013 was an exceptional whale watching year&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like wine a whale watching year can be good or simply outstanding. 2013 was an outstanding year in terms of breadth of species and the consistency of sightings. It was no coincidence that we also had an excellent summer with lots of sunshine and calm sea conditions! The weather in April and early May though [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>UN International Court of Justice Ruling&#8230;will it make a difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 10:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the UN International Court of Justice ruled on a court case brought by Australia against Japan in 2010, citing that Japan&#8217;s so called &#8220;scientific whaling&#8221; was commercial whaling by another name. The ruling has found in favour of Australia and considers that Japan&#8217;s insistence that their self imposed quotas of over 1000 whales to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Discover The Wild Atlantic Way with Irish Ferries and Whale Watch West Cork</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Brian Gallagher on Whale Watching with Whale Watch West Cork</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2013 19:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The journalist Brian Gallagher spends a day whale watching aboard Voyager with Nic Slocum of Whale Watch West Cork and is amazed by the sightings and rounding the Fastnet Rock and Lighthouse. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Whale and Dolphin Weekly is out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Whale and Dolphin Weekly is out&#8230; Subscribe to receive your copy direct to your desk top &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Codes of Conduct 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whale and Dolphin Watching Guidlines 2013 Nic Slocum and the Whale Watch West Cork team have spent many years reviewing  codes of conduct for boat based interactions with cetaceans from around the globe. We have compiled the most comprehensive Code of Conduct for the interaction between boats and cetaceans in Irish waters. This Code of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cousteau launches global alliance to  save the whales again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cousteau launches global alliance to save the whales again!  Charities and businesses from around the world form ‘world cetacean alliance’ in an overdue new partnership for whales and dolphins In 1982 we thought we had ‘Saved the Whale’ when  in Brighton, UK, 42 world governments met at the Hilton hotel and took an historic vote [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A rare and mysterious visitor in Walvis Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nic]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Original article produced in the Namibian Dolphin Project blog Click on the header for original article&#8230; A rare and mysterious visitor in Walvis Bay by: John Paterson, Albatross Task Force and Walvis Bay Strandings Network Gray whales, Eschrichtius robustus, live in the high Arctic and northern Pacific Oceans coming as far south as Baja California and Mexico [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>UK politicians united in call on Japan to end commercial whaling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nic]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published by Tom Quinn of  The International Fund for Animal Welfare in association with the launch of their new report &#8220;The economics of Japanese whaling&#8221;&#8230; ********** MPs and Peers from across the political spectrum in Britain have called upon Japan to end its cruel and unnecessary whaling programme. More than 30 Parliamentarians attended the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>National Whale and Dolphin Watch &#8211; Sea Watch Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[nic]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sea Watch Foundation National Whale and Dolphin Watch 27th July – 4th August 2013  National Whale and Dolphin Watch, Britain’s largest cetacean watch is fast approaching and we’re hoping to make it bigger than ever – please help us publicise the event by posting it on your events pages and by printing off copies of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Naval Exercises Kill Cetaceans&#8230;It&#8217;s official</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 19:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[REPRODUCED FROM LIVE SCIENCE&#8230; Click here for full article On June 9, 2008, at least 60 dolphins stranded along the coast of Cornwall, England, in what was by far the largest common dolphin mortality ever seen in British waters. For hours, rescuers tried to lead them back to sea — often unsuccessfully, as some of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Nic Slocum of Whale Watch West Cork and Whales Worldwide appointed to Chair of Planet Whale steering committee of the sustainable whale watching partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 17:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Nic Slocum, Managing Director of the Ireland based whale watch operator Whale Watch West Cork has been appointed to the chairmanship of the steering committee of the Planet Whale responsible whale watching partnership as of May 2013. This role will entail pulling together a team of experts from the responsible whale watching partnership who will look [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>International Whaling Commission (IWC) invites leading Ireland based whale watch operator and pioneer of sustainable whale watching to attend whale watch operators workshop in Brisbane, Australia&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 16:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Nic Slocum, Managing Director of Whale Watch West Cork and chairman of the steering committee of the Planet Whale responsible Whale Watching Partnership, has been invited to attend the IWC Whale Watch Operator&#8217;s Workshop on 24th-26th May in Brisbane, Australia. The IWC is drawing on operator expertise from around the globe during this two [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Humpback Whales of Baltimore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baltimore, West Cork has long been the whale and dolphin watching capital of West Cork with a season spanning April through December. Sightings include species from the smaller minke whales and common dolphins right up to the mighty fin whale and humpback whale. In addition, basking sharks, leatherback turtles, Atlantic sunfish, harbour porpoises and seals [&#8230;]]]></description>
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