The Cook Islands has placed a ban on commercial fishing within 50 nautical miles of the nation to reduce the interaction between commercial fishing and humpback whales. In 2001 the…
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This weekend in the UK and USA advocates for Lolita the killer whale marched with one common aim – to ask Miami Seaquarium to retire her from performing, something she…
Marine Connection welcomes the news that Britain’s second largest travel company Thomas Cook is dropping tours to several dolphinariums because the facilities do not meet its welfare standards. The facilities no…
More than half the world’s whale and dolphin species are found in New Zealand waters, yet very little is known about their migration paths, their behaviour and where they go….
A must see – this new film by Marine Connection colleagues Suzanne Chisholm and Mike Parfitt who created ‘Saving Luna’ the story of a young solitary orca, ‘Call of the…
Ghost nets are commercial fishing nets which have been lost or abandoned by a fishing vessel and remain in the sea. Every year thousands of whales, dolphins and porpoise are…
Following our previous post, Marine Connection has written to the Prime Minister of St Lucia expressing concern over plans by Dolphin Discovery to establish a dolphin park at Pigeon Island, St…
Wuxi Changqiao Ocean Kingdom will be the largest ocean park in the region upon completion in 2019. Covering 185,000-sq-m at a cost of approximately $435 million the facility plans to display…
Gray whale watching season has officially arrived around Puget Sound – the coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington. Referred to as “Sounders”, approximately 12…
Vancouver Park Board Commissioners voted unanimously yesterday to put an end to the display of cetaceans on its property at Stanley Park where the Vancouver Aquarium is located. Campaigners celebrated…
