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NRDC: Protecting Whales from Dangerous Sonar
Bush administration resistance. In early 2008, a federal court prohibited the Navy from conducting major mid-frequency sonar exercises ...
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RE: Don't test mid-frequency sonar on endangered whale migratory path
North Carolina's Outer Banks -- despite the fact that in January 2005, 37 whales of three different species beached themselves in this very same area following naval sonar exercises ... concentration of sonar, it is also critical that the Navy implement a full range of mitigation measures to protect marine life from these sonar exercises, including limiting sonar use to ...
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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: Cetaceans Campaign | Campaign News
Campaign Update: 10 Sep 03 UK leads international opposition to Iceland’s whale hunt The ... permit to harm whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals while using its Low Frequency Active Sonar system (LFAS) in as much as 80 percent of the world's oceans. Campaign Update ...
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Marine Connection - Sonar
Various levels of human-caused noise including military sonar exercises, oil and gas exploration, motor boats and jet-skis can all have an affect on ... with their ability to communicate with each other, behavioral changes and disrupt social bonds. Military Sonar & Underwater Noise Marine litter, plastics & balloon releases DONATE NOW TO PROTECT THEM ADOPT A ...
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European Parliament Calls For Halt To High Intensity Naval Sonar Use
Noting a growing body of scientific research that confirms such sonar poses "a significant threat to marine mammals, fish and ... sonar systems, which are used by nearly 60 percent of the U.S. Navy's nearly 300 ships and submarines. Mass stranding and mortality events associated with mid-frequency sonar exercises ...
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To protect whales, Navy will limit use of low-frequency sonar - Los Angeles Times
California The Navy and environmentalists have been jousting in court for several years over the risk to whales and other marine life posed by underwater noise from sonar exercises. A separate lawsuit, not involved in Tuesday's announcement, involves mid-frequency sonar. That case is pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. Navy officials insist that the sonar exercises ...
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Marine Connection
Alaska over five years ago. More Navy continues sonar exercises (Added: 24 January 2007) The Pentagon has exempted ... exercises over the next two years without seeking permission for each under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Votes for sonar restrictions ... to protect marine mammals from potentially deadly sonar transmissions during 14 training exercises scheduled for the next two years off ...
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Navy admits sonar
SONAR as reported in The Honolulu Advertiser December 30, 2001 A joint report by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Navy revealed that sonar used during naval exercises ... way in which the stradings coincided with ongoing naval activity involving tactical mid-range frequency sonar use... the investigation team concludes that tactical mid-range frequency sonars aboard U.S. Navy ...
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NRDC: Press Release - U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Navy Sonar Case
U.S. Navy's use of sonar in ongoing training exercises through 2009. The Court's order granting certiorari can be found here: ... exercises to continue in the Southern California region but with greater environmental safeguards in the use of harmful mid-frequency active sonar (MFA). The Navy, in its official "Environmental Assessment" of the exercises ...
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