In December 2017 a dead female orca was brought up in the net of a deep-water trawl vessel, 30 nautical miles northeast of Banks Peninsula on the South Island of…
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It’s the start of the annual summer holiday season with many looking forward to that well-deserved break and, for some, this will include a visit to marine parks. Although the…
The carcasses of 13 bottlenose dolphins have washed up on Delaware shores (USA) in the last few weeks, spanning the length of the state from the Delaware Bay to Cape…
Marine Connection welcomes the news that the California Senate recently passed animal welfare bill, SB 1017. The legislation which passed in a unanimous 33-0 vote now moves to the Assembly….
As our supporters will be aware, Marine Connection has been voicing our concern over plans by the Cromarty Firth Port Authority application to carry out ship-to-ship oil transfers at sea…
Visitors to Eilat, Israel on the northern tip of the Red Sea were treated to a rare sight recently when a 65-foot blue whale was spotted close to shore. A…
The latest numbers for the northern resident killer whales (NRKW) now stands at 309, the population has more than doubled since the 1970s when they totalled 120 whales. These latest…
Whilst representatives of the Lummi Nation have travelled thousands of miles across the USA during their Totem Pole Journey for Lolita, Miami Seaquarium continues to be deaf to pleas to…
The Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) retrieved the juvenile dolphin carcass from a beach near Great Yarmouth for a post-mortem – this species is usually found hunting squid and octopus…
Over the past few weeks, there have been several attacks from bottlenose dolphins on harbour porpoises around the Moray Firth, Scotland. Sadly, many of the small marine mammals sustain several…
