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The five new aircraft will provide an additional 30% in transport capacity for Airbus' industrial network, joining the existing fleet of five Belugas which are based on the legacy A300 jetliner.

Until the last month, there had been only 17 sightings of belugas in all of Britain and Ireland, with 13 of them in Scotland and only one - at Hadston in Northumberland in 1988 - in the North East.

"Two belugas whales were also sighted from South Shields pier on September 1, at around midday," a spokesman for the group said.

Belugas are normally found around Greenland or in the Barents Sea from the island archipelago of Svalbard eastwards, where thousands of animals live amid the ice.

Concepcion said that in the US, the Georgia Aquarium's application to import Beluga whales from Russia was rejected "because of the sustainability issue of harvesting wild belugas for commercial purposes."

There are five Belugas which are operated by Airbus that eventually link these plants and take the various airplane sections to the final production or assembly line, either in Hamburg or Toulouse.

WHALE experts have blasted one of the world's biggest aquariums for plucking 18 belugas from the wild to put them on show.

a detailed evaluation of how each project activity could impact local belugas and other marine mammals;

A young whale pokes its melon-shaped head into the cool morning air near this remote island, a sign its herd is thriving despite mounting threats in Russia's melting Arctic.Cameras and microphones capture the whale's every move as scientists use the species' only shore-side breeding ground to see how they are coping as fleets of oil tankers replace melting ice in their traditional feeding grounds."Belugas are a bellwether species what happens to them reflects the effects of pollution and global warming on the whole ecosystem," said Vsevolod Belkovich, a professor at the Russian Academy of Science who is leading the study.Scientists have recorded a small drop in the whale population that they attribute in part to human activity in Arctic regions.

Belugas can live to 50 and a typical pregnancy lasts between 15 and 17 months

It's the world as it once was, where brown bears and walrus outnumber people, where rivers turn red with spawning sockeyes, where you can see hundreds of while Beluga whales chasing the salmon and pods of Orcas hunting the belugas.

Population indices and estimates for the belugas of the St.