Researchers aboard a small, four-seat aeroplane, were amazed recently by the sheer abundance and diversity of marine wildlife in their aerial survey of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National…
Marine Connection is pleased to report that Al Jazeera’s 101 East programme investigation about China’s multi-billion-dollar aquarium industry, exposing the cruelty and suffering of some of the world’s most majestic…
Pro-whaling nations at the current International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Brazil once again blocked an effort to establish a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary – Japan, backed by commercial whaling…
A dolphin nicknamed Kylie which has lived mainly alone in the Firth of Clyde for over 15 years, seems to like the company of harbour porpoises and research now suggests…
Researchers from Jeju, Ewha Womans and Kyoto universities have confirmed Boksoon, an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin released back into the wild off South Korea’s largest island of Jeju three years ago…
Underwater noise is a big concern when installing offshore wind farms but recently, the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator and offshore wind engineering company Fistuca announced they have completed the…
A federal investigative report released to The Associated Press through a public records request, shows that indigenous hunters in Alaska initially believed they were legally hunting a beluga whale when…
BothTui and Virgin have announced that they won’t be following Thomas Cook’s lead in dropping sales of tickets to the SeaWorld theme parks. Virgin say to stop tickets sales completely…
Over a 5-day period in early August, five strandings of Cuvier’s beaked whales were documented in various areas around Ireland. Three were found at the same time in separate locations…
An international investigation into the stranding of 30 sperm whales in the southern North Sea in 2016 including seven in the Netherlands, has concluded that the event most probably occurred…