On the 3rd December 2020, Scottish Ministers announced the designation of four further Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas (NCMPA) and twelve Special Protection Areas (SPA). The areas include north-east Lewis,…
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It’s now two months since the solitary male bottlenose dolphin known as Fungie, disappeared from the waters of Dingle in County Kerry, Ireland after making the bay his home for…
Marine Connection has been working for the protection of solitary/social dolphins and whales for many years and has launched a new public awareness campaign to highlight the threats facing these…
Every year at least 8 million tons of plastic ends up in our oceans, making up 80% of all marine debris – a serious and sometimes fatal threat to dolphins…
Marine Connection is supporting a memorial project which has been launched for Danny, the much-loved solitary/social dolphin that frequented the waters around the Dorset coast (UK), who sadly died last…
New evidence suggests that North Korea is training dolphins for military purposes in a carbon-copy of America’s Navy programme. Comparisons to the marine mammal pens used by the U.S. Navy…
Bycatch is the incidental capture of non-target species such as dolphins, whales and porpoises by various fisheries – it’s a global issue and one of the most serious, direct threats…
A campaign led by UK actress Joanna Lumley and supported by Marine Connection is demanding offshore wind farm developers stop blowing up old war bombs that are lurking in British…
In 2017 the Canary Islands Superior Court of Justice (TSJC), declared that the dolphin pool which had been constructed in 2010 within the Palmitos Zoological Park in Maspalomas, Gran Canaria…
The North Atlantic right whale is one of the world’s most endangered large whale species and time to save this species is running out even faster than feared. A new…
