BothTui and Virgin have announced that they won’t be following Thomas Cook’s lead in dropping sales of tickets to the SeaWorld theme parks. Virgin say to stop tickets sales completely…
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Over a 5-day period in early August, five strandings of Cuvier’s beaked whales were documented in various areas around Ireland. Three were found at the same time in separate locations…
An international investigation into the stranding of 30 sperm whales in the southern North Sea in 2016 including seven in the Netherlands, has concluded that the event most probably occurred…
Since 2006 Marine Connection has supported campaigns by colleagues at Dolphin Defenders St Maarten to stop the establishment of a captive dolphin facility on the island. To date we have…
Atlantis Sanya, the facility which opened recently on Hainan Island, keeps both beluga whales and dolphins for display/entertainment purposes, the whales were transferred from Russia and the dolphins sourced from…
It has been reported that two wild orcas have been captured in Russian waters at Nicholay Bay in the Khabarovsk region. Colleagues from Ocean Friends who are monitoring the captures…
On July 24, one of the Southern Resident Orca population in the Pacific North West gave birth to a female calf. This was very welcome news, but sadly the calf…
Just north of Seattle, Washington on August 8 1970, several young southern resident killer whales were captured in the shallow waters of Penn Cove, Whidbey Island – among the…
Further to our report yesterday (30 July), Marine Connection has been in contact with Thomas Cook with regards to Miami Seaquarium. Currently, Thomas Cook offers this as an excursion to…
Further to the recent announcement by Thomas Cook that from next Summer they will cease selling tickets to facilities which display orca, the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA)…
