Visitors to the Welsh coastline (UK) this summer are being reminded not to disturb the marine wildlife after reports of swimmers approaching the wild bottlenose dolphins which frequent the Cardigan…
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In 2016, Marine Connection contacted the Minister for the Environment in Gibraltar following reports that many dolphins in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters (BGTW) were being injured due to a fishing…
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson recently unveiled legislation aimed at protecting the highly endangered North Atlantic right whale. The SAVE Right Whales Act of 2018 (S. 3038) establishes a new grant…
In December 2017 a dead female orca was brought up in the net of a deep-water trawl vessel, 30 nautical miles northeast of Banks Peninsula on the South Island of…
It’s the start of the annual summer holiday season with many looking forward to that well-deserved break and, for some, this will include a visit to marine parks. Although the…
The carcasses of 13 bottlenose dolphins have washed up on Delaware shores (USA) in the last few weeks, spanning the length of the state from the Delaware Bay to Cape…
Marine Connection welcomes the news that the California Senate recently passed animal welfare bill, SB 1017. The legislation which passed in a unanimous 33-0 vote now moves to the Assembly….
As our supporters will be aware, Marine Connection has been voicing our concern over plans by the Cromarty Firth Port Authority application to carry out ship-to-ship oil transfers at sea…
Visitors to Eilat, Israel on the northern tip of the Red Sea were treated to a rare sight recently when a 65-foot blue whale was spotted close to shore. A…
The latest numbers for the northern resident killer whales (NRKW) now stands at 309, the population has more than doubled since the 1970s when they totalled 120 whales. These latest…
