The French Ministry of the Environment are currently considering a draft order to update current regulations, passed in 1981, to improve standards for dolphinaria in France. They are inviting public…
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The New Zealand Department of Conservation has reconsidered its plans for disposal of the bodies of the pilot whales who died during the recent strandings on Farewell Spit. The whales…
In 2016 record numbers of dolphins were spotted off Scotland’s west coast. Colleagues at the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust recorded 2,303 individual common dolphins, 42 bottlenose dolphins, and 94…
Disturbed by recent reports that fishermen in Taiji had subjected a pod of bottlenose dolphins, including juveniles and calves with their mothers, to unimaginable stress over 5 days of the…
Illegal whalers are using South Korea’s eastern coastal regions to the Yellow Sea – name given to the northern part of the East China Sea – to hunt migrating whales….
When SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment announced they were going to open their first branded park with no captive killer whales in Abu Dhabi, eyebrows were raised on how SeaWorld would…
Thank you to all who have supported the campaign so far to stop the ship-to-ship transfers of millions of tonnes of crude oil in the open waters of the Moray…
Thank you to everyone who has supported the campaign so far to stop the transfers of millions of tonnes of crude oil in the open waters of the Moray Firth,…
Miami Seaquarium has recently been quoted in the press stating that, despite public concern, it will not release the orca known as Lolita. In a statement, General Manager of the…
High levels of contaminants in Southern Resident killer whales (SRKW) are one of the primary threats to the whales, according to a recent National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report….
