The ongoing issue of the Fjord & Baelt facility in Denmark being authorised to take wild-caught harbour porpoises for research is extremely concerning. Marine Connection agrees this needs to be…
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Over the past few years, there have been numerous strandings of dolphins, whales (and turtles) reported around India’s coastline but, to date, there has been no collective database documenting when…
Parc Astérix has confirmed that all their dolphins have left the facility – except for 39-year-old Femke who has been euthanized. As previously reported, two dolphins Guama and Cecil were…
A beluga whale calf has been born at Guangzhou Zhengjia Polar Ocean World (southern China), the fifth to be born in the country. The mother gave birth in November 2020,…
A solitary female common dolphin who lived around Eckerförder Bay, Germany for approximately a year has been found dead. Her body was found on the seabed by recreational divers on…
Marine Connection continues to liaise with Daniel Rolke our colleague at Djurrattsallians in Sweden who now advises that one of the two Parc Astérix dolphins which arrived at Kolmården Wildlife…
Marine Connection welcomes the news that the keeping of captive cetaceans in South Korea will eventually be banned due to a forthcoming amendment within the Zoo and Aquarium Management Act,…
Theme park Parc Astérix in France is to permanently close its dolphinarium. Their 8 dolphins and 5 sea lions will be moved to other parks within Europe over the next…
Twenty years after first being sighted in County Kerry, Ireland, the male solitary dolphin known as Georges appears to continue enjoying his wild travels. Although over the years he has…
Anne Hegerty, Mark Labbett and Shaun Wallace from ITV’s ‘The Chase’ (a British television quiz show) take to the road in a new series Trains, Brains and Automobiles. The programme…
