The proposal to create a new South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary has been rejected by Delegates at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Slovenia There were 38...
Despite the moratorium put in place in 1986, for profit and ‘bogus science’, Iceland, Japan and Norway have put more than 40,000 whales to death. Ahead...
The Wilderness Society are protesting the search for oil in the Great Australian Bight. BP and Norwegian company Statoil, have partnered up to explore the 2000km...
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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,...
A proposed 50m sq mile sanctuary for migratory whales has been opposed by a Japanese led commercial whaling lobby during the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) biennial...
California blue whales have returned in sustainable numbers, becoming the first population of their species to recover from whaling, scientists have reported. According to new research...
Norwegian fisherman have captured a record total of 729 whales so far this year, the highest number since 1993, when the country officially resumed the internationally...
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...
Campaigners are calling on tourists to boycott the travel conference TBEX 2014, because it offers attendees the chance to sign up for controversial captive dolphin tours....
US president Barack Obama has approved a project that will open up an area off the east coast of the US to oil and gas exploration...
As concern grows about the health of the world’s oceans, threatened by rising temperatures, acidification and overfishing, a new report has claimed there is at least...
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...
As a warming climate opens up new waters to shipping and fossil fuel exploitation, researchers have warned that the US is completely unprepared to deal with...
Leaked documents have revealed that SeaWorld, the subject of fierce criticism over animal welfare in recent weeks, could be drugging the orca whales that perform at...