Stewart Cook

PHOTOS: Projects

Long term projects and feature work.

Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is a threatened species in Atlantic Canada because of incidental mortality by many fisheries especially herring. They are one of the most common marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy (especially from July to September.) In 1991, The Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station in New Brunswick began the Harbor Porpoise Release Program (http://www.gmwsrs.org/release.htm) to work with local fishermen to safely release porpoises from their weirs without disrupting herring catches. They have successfully released more than 600 porpoises from local herring weirs.
   
The removal of 25 Bengal tigers from a back garden in New Jersey. The tigers which had become cannibalized were living in small trailers and being fed 'road kill'.
   
Officials from New Jersey, Police, Swat, Fish and Game as well as Wild Animal welfare groups, moved the 24 tigers from New Jersey to a sanctuary in Texas.
     
  
Patrick Ramage and his son Henry who flew from Cape Cod to Anchorage in the "whale plane" to raise awareness of the current plight of humpbacks. They travelled to the IWC meeting in the Cape Air / IFAW Whale Plane, a Cessna 402 painted with inspiring images of humpback whales.
   
Across the country Patrick and Henry stopped in major cities for press conferences and to collect art work from children in all 50 States.
   
     
  
Two bear cubs, nicknamed Suzy and Johnny who were both a year and a half old, and were rehabilitated at the NLWS center in Smithers, British Columbia. Suzy was orphaned in June 2007 after her mother was killed by a poacher. Johnny was rescued in Prince George, British Columbia in November 2007 after his mother was killed by a semi-truck
   
A team of bear experts, vets and biologists checked the bears health and fitted a GPS colar so they can be tracked in the wild.
   
Grizzly bears once roamed from Alaska to Mexico and were found as far east as Ohio. Today their range has shrunk and grizzly bears are designated as a species of special concern by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
     
  
IFAW rescues animals and pets that were left stranded after the flooding in New Orleans including a 300LB pot bellied pig and old man called Stan.
   
Boats were used to rescue the animals. One angry dog is calmed down before being transfered to the rescue centre.
   
A NAtional Guard helicopter guides the crew to Stan and more lose animals are picked up.
     
  
Some of the animals were desperate to be rescued and litterally jumped into our arms.