http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/old/taxonomy/term/13314/0 fr http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/her-name-was-alacran/33939 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/her_name_was_alacran.jpg" alt="" title="Shown above is the fluke of Alacran, the first blue whale ever encountered by the author of this article. She was first identified by the Mingan Island Cetacean Study on August 18, 1985, in the St Lawrence Gulf. Zack Metcalfe photo" width="450" height="276" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>It took us eight minutes to spot our first whale after leaving harbour. Just eight minutes before field biologist Katy Gavrilchuk pointed parallel to the coast of Gaspé and shouted &ldquo;eleven o&rsquo;clock!&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/her-name-was-alacran/33939" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/her-name-was-alacran/33939#comments Zack Metcalfe Environnement blue whale Gulf of St.Lawrence Mingan Island Cetacean Study Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:25:41 +0000 Robert DeVet 33939 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/blue-whale-black-oil-and-race-gulf/31182 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/bluewhalewithcalf.jpg" alt="" title="Blue whale with calf. Environmentalists fear that oil exploration in the Gulf of St.Lawrence will threaten the survival of this endangered species. " width="450" height="299" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>The world&#39;s largest animal is also one of its most vulnerable.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/blue-whale-black-oil-and-race-gulf/31182" target="_blank">en lire plus</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/blue-whale-black-oil-and-race-gulf/31182#comments Zack Metcalfe Environnement blue whale CNLOPB Gulf of St.Lawrence Offshore Drilling offshore oil exploration oil seismic testing Wed, 16 Jul 2014 23:47:42 +0000 Robert DeVet 31182 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca