Since 2006 Marine Connection has supported campaigns by colleagues at Dolphin Defenders St Maarten to stop the establishment of a captive dolphin facility on the island. To date we have…
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Atlantis Sanya, the facility which opened recently on Hainan Island, keeps both beluga whales and dolphins for display/entertainment purposes, the whales were transferred from Russia and the dolphins sourced from…
It has been reported that two wild orcas have been captured in Russian waters at Nicholay Bay in the Khabarovsk region. Colleagues from Ocean Friends who are monitoring the captures…
On July 24, one of the Southern Resident Orca population in the Pacific North West gave birth to a female calf. This was very welcome news, but sadly the calf…
Just north of Seattle, Washington on August 8 1970, several young southern resident killer whales were captured in the shallow waters of Penn Cove, Whidbey Island – among the…
Further to our report yesterday (30 July), Marine Connection has been in contact with Thomas Cook with regards to Miami Seaquarium. Currently, Thomas Cook offers this as an excursion to…
Further to the recent announcement by Thomas Cook that from next Summer they will cease selling tickets to facilities which display orca, the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA)…
Marine Connection is delighted to report that Britain’s biggest tour operator Thomas Cook is axing their trips to SeaWorld in the USA and Loro Parque in Tenerife from summer 2019…
Since the first gathering in 2011, Superpod6 (SP6) kicked off on July 19th on San Juan Island, United States. This year’s theme was The Blackfish Effect – marking the five-year-anniversary…
Coastal areas surrounding the Hawaiian Islands have now been designated as a protected, critical habitat for the small, unique population of false killer whales living in those waters. The National…
