Today, August 8th marks the 47th anniversary of the capture of seven members of the Southern Resident orca population including Lolita, in Penn Cove, Washington State, USA. During the 1960s/70s,…
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On May 3 this year legislation was signed by French Environment Minister Segolene Royal relating to keeping of marine mammals in captivity in the France. This included a ban on…
Marine Connection welcomes the news that Mexico City Congress has passed a bill under the Protection of Animals law prohibiting the commercial exploitation and use of marine mammals, including dolphins…
The last orca whale born in captivity under SeaWorld’s former orca-breeding program has died at the San Antonio park. 3-month-old Kyara died Monday, July 24 after her health continued to…
Ships passing through a sensitive area off British Columbia’s coast, have agreed to slow down in an effort to protect the critically endangered southern resident killer whale population. One of the…
A female minke whale died after becoming entangled in fishing gear off Scotland’s west coast. Her tail fluke is believed to have become tangled in a creel rope off the…
The Ocean Film Festival World Tour returns to the UK this autumn for the fourth year running, bringing an evening of inspirational and jaw dropping ocean films from independent film…
The incidental capture of wildlife in fishing gear presents a global conservation challenge. As a baseline to inform assessments of the impact of bycatch on bottlenose dolphins interacting with the…
Colleagues from the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group have reported exceptional sightings of minke whales and humpback whales off west Cork recently. A pod of humpbacks that normally frequents west…
There has been a lot of interest recently with regards to what caused the deaths of six North Atlantic right whales recently found floating lifeless in the Gulf of St….
