Greenpeace says its ship Esperanza found evidence of illegal tuna fishing in international waters between Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia last week. The vessels were Philippine-registered.

Five were lifted from the sea by helicopters at dawn Monday and the last two missing divers were found later.

An extensive search and rescue effort continues for eight scuba divers missing in waters off Kenting National Park since Saturday. 

Four helicopters from an airborne police unit, six coastguard patrol boats, twenty fishing boats and several tourist vessels scoured waters near Chihsingyen (Seven Star Rock), a popular diving spot.

According the latest report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in 2007 researchers found 45,084 nests for the loggerhead turtles, down more than 4,600 nests from the year before.

"Data collected during the 2007 season indicate the lowest nesting levels in Florida" in the history of the monitoring program concluded the report. In 1998, the state reported 85,988 nests.

More than 140 mourners at a funeral in northern Thailand are reported to have been taken ill after eating a dish that appears to have contained pufferfish.  

The mourners started vomiting and complained of numb tongues and shortness of breath and were rushed to hospital after being served soup containing fish balls bought at a local market in Nan province, the Bangkok Post reports.

A cargo of juvenile sharks, four of them allegedly whale sharks, were intercepted in Pagbilao town, Quezon province, by a task force of provincial fishery officials and environmentalists. 

Glenn Forbes, Tanggol Kalikasan-Southern Tagalog program officer, said that a concerned citizen and a local government official from the coastal town of Calauag, Quezon province tipped them off by mobile phone that several baby whale sharks would be transported to Manila.

The New York Aquarium has lost a 43-year-old raggedtooth shark called Bertha Aquarium Director Jon Forrest Dohlin said Bertha “was a great animal and a symbol for the plight of all sharks in the wild.”  

The facility, which is run by the Wildlife Conservation Society, says Bertha may have been the longest living raggedtooth shark in an aquarium.