A rare northern bottlenose whale measuring more than five metres long washed up on a beach in Porthcawl, Wales (UK) recently. Usually found in small numbers off the Northern Isles and…
The dolphins from Särkänniemi dolphinarium in Finland have been moved to Attica Park, Greece. Greece currently has a ban in place on any performances of animals, even domestic pets. However,…
Amsterdam law firm Van Den Biesen Kloostra Advocaten representing the Free Morgan Foundation (FMF) recently presented the State Secretary of Economic Affairs (the Netherlands) with an application for annulment of the EC certificate of…
The Killer Whales Australia (KWA) publication is the result of hundreds of hours of scrutinising 3,332 images from 139 sightings and analysis of data that has been collected over a…
Whale watchers on-board different vessels caught a rare encounter recently – a clash between transient orcas and humpback whales. The orca were spotted taking on two adult humpbacks and a…
Marine Connection has concern over a recent suggestion in the media by Dewa Suardipa, Chairman of the Buleleng branch of the Indonesian Hotel and Restaurant Association that ocean floating ‘sea…
Marine Connection has contacted the Minister for the Environment in Gibraltar following reports that many dolphins in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters (BGTW), are being injured due to a fishing practice…
Implemented from September 2016, the ban throughout the vaquita’s entire range in the upper Gulf of California is crucial to avoid extinction of the world’s most endangered cetacean species. Fishermen…
Marine Connection recently attended the annual gathering of Superpod5 on San Juan Island, Washington State. Scientists, NGOs, authors, journalists, former trainers and orca advocates from around the world met to…
May and June are normally the months when the Southern Resident orca pods show up in the Salish Sea – an intricate network of coastal waterways that includes the southwestern…