A leading animal charity has launched a new campaign encouraging responsible tourists to avoid animal attractions, which often conceal a great deal of suffering. Blue &...
Virgin’s CEO Richard Branson has announced that Virgin Holidays will now require that its partners and suppliers do not capture wild cetaceans for the entertainment industry,...
Japan’s highly controversial annual dolphin slaughter, held in the waters by the town of Taiji, has officially begun. It is expected to last six months and...
The organisers of a tourism bloggers conference have yielded to campaigner pressure to ditch controversial captive dolphin experiences from their programme. Campaigners had urged tourists to...
One of the world’s rarest species of dolphin is under threat from oil exploration and fishing, environmentalists have claimed. It is believed that only around 55...
Eighty-six per cent of British tourists have no interest in visiting marine circuses while on holiday, according to a survey by the Born Free Foundation and...
Alex Blackburne speaks with Cindy Forde of the BLUE Marine Foundation about making money out of responsible fisheries. The elephant in the room for many environmentalists...
Plans to create areas of marine protection in Scottish waters have received almost unanimous public support, in a boost for the future of the country’s marine...
The US ambassador to Japan has said she is “deeply concerned” about the drive hunt dolphin killing that occurs each year in a cove in Taiji,...
British firm BP has announced it has made a “significant oil discovery” at the Gila prospect in the Gulf of Mexico – its first since US...
An international initiative aiming to stop ‘ghost fishing’ has celebrated its first success after retrieving 20 tonnes of discarded fishing nets from the bottom of the...
A committee of MPs has criticised lethargic action from the government over making 127 sites around the UK marine conservation zones (MCZs). The Department for Environment,...