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- Environmental deal struck to allow Navy sonar for war games
  Posted by Billbar from Honolulu Star Bulletin
  The world's largest naval war games will go on as planned, with the 35 warships from the United States and seven Pacific Rim countries allowed to use active sonar. Yesterday, a federal court in California approved a settlement that requires safeguards, including a 25-mile sonar-free buffer zone around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument recently created by President Bush, and significant increases in monitoring for marine mammals during sonar drills.
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- Right Whales Get 36,750 Square Miles to Call Their Own
  Posted by Billbar from Live Science
  The federal rule published Thursday designates some 36,750 square miles in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska as critical habitat for right whales. The rule takes effect Aug. 7.
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- Court halts Navy use of sonar over whale issue
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  A federal judge temporarily blocked the Navy on Monday from using active sonar during a major multinational exercise off Hawaii until it can negotiate with environmentalists who say the sonar would harm whales.
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- Judge temporarily bars Navy use of sonar that may harm whales
  Posted by Billbar
  The temporary restraining order, sought by environmentalists, came three days after the Defense Department granted the Navy a six-month exemption from certain federal laws protecting marine species to allow use of the "mid-frequency active sonar.'' The Navy's failure to take a "hard look'' at the environmental impact of war games was an "arbitrary and capricious'' violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper wrote.
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- Pentagon exempts Navy from whale protection law
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  The Pentagon on Friday exempted the Navy for six months from a law protecting whales and other marine mammals, a move that may allow planned naval exercises using military sonar to proceed despite a lawsuit. "The Navy will continue to employ stringent mitigation measures to protect marine mammals during all sonar activities, to include habitat controls, safety zones around ships, trained lookouts, extra precautions during chokepoint exercises, in coordination with National Marine Fisheries Service," said Rear Adm. James Symonds, director of environmental readiness.
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- Sonar Called Likely Stranding Cause
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  Federal marine specialists have concluded that Navy sonar was the most likely cause of the unusual stranding of melon-headed whales in a Hawaiian bay in 2004.
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- Mass whale deaths tied to U.S. Navy sonar
  Posted by Billbar from yomiuri.co.jp
  The U.S. Navy's deployment of active sonar to detect submarine activity is believed to have been responsible for at least six incidents of mass death and unusual behavior among pods of whales in the last 10 years, according to a recent U.S. Congressional Research Service report.
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Whales

Environmental deal struck to allow Navy sonar for war games

Right Whales Get 36,750 Square Miles to Call Their Own

Court halts Navy use of sonar over whale issue

Judge temporarily bars Navy use of sonar that may harm whales

Pentagon exempts Navy from whale protection law

Sonar Called Likely Stranding Cause

Mass whale deaths tied to U.S. Navy sonar

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