New dolphin footage off Irish coast fuels speculation Fungie could be alive irishmirror.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irishmirror.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated / Thursday, 29 Oct 2020
15:00 The dolphins we thought were missing, presumed dead were actually missing, moved
Good news: Fungie may well have moved from Dingle up the coast to Tralee. This possibility has been raised by Dr Simon Berrow from the Marine and Freshwater Research Centre at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology. Berrow spoke to Bryan Dobson on RTÉ Radio 1 s News At One about how dolphins who were thought to have died, like the most famous one in Ireland, were later discovered alive. We started studying the Shannon dolphins in May 1993 , explained Berrow. We called them the Shannon dolphins because they re a resident group who are always in the Shannon estuary. Every year, we do transits around the estuary looking for individual dolphins we know about from markings and we see how they re getting on.
The marine renewable energy industry in Ireland is set for explosive growth in the coming years with a production target of 5GW of offshore wind energy by 2030 and an ambition of 30GW by 2050.
The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) supports the decarbonizing of the Irish economy, but offshore developments should be carried out within the framework of both national and international best practice and should have only minimal and not significant impacts on whales, dolphins and porpoises and their habitats.
An IWDG Policy Document on Offshore Windfarms was launched today at the group’s annual meeting WhaleTales. This policy document seeks to describe best practice in the protection of whales, dolphins and porpoises during the development process for offshore windfarms. Many of the same policies can apply to any marine renewable energy installation.
Irish Whale & Dolphin Group Publishes Policy Document on Offshore Wind afloat.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from afloat.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Director Rachel Feldman with Nathan Fillion on the set of The Rookie
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