Pro-whaling nations at the current International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Brazil once again blocked an effort to establish a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary – Japan, backed by commercial whaling…
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A dolphin nicknamed Kylie which has lived mainly alone in the Firth of Clyde for over 15 years, seems to like the company of harbour porpoises and research now suggests…
Researchers from Jeju, Ewha Womans and Kyoto universities have confirmed Boksoon, an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin released back into the wild off South Korea’s largest island of Jeju three years ago…
Underwater noise is a big concern when installing offshore wind farms but recently, the Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator and offshore wind engineering company Fistuca announced they have completed the…
A federal investigative report released to The Associated Press through a public records request, shows that indigenous hunters in Alaska initially believed they were legally hunting a beluga whale when…
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…
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…
