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Successful high-tech project to protect the last sperm whales in the Mediterranean Sea

by OceanCare | 30/05/2022 | Media Release

Athens/Berlin/Madrid/Vienna/Zurich, 30. May 2022 A now published scientific paper in “Frontiers in Marine Science” presents the results of OceanCare’s successful three-year pilot project SAvE Whales. The system developed under SAvE Whales uses solar-powered high-tech...

Faroe Islands: 60 pilot whales killed in first hunt of the year

by OceanCare | 08/05/2022 | Media Release

Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, May 8, 2022: Yesterday, Saturday, May 7, a so-called ‘grindadrap’ (whale drive-hunt) occurred on the Faroe Islands for the first time this year. Eyewitnesses report that an entire school consisting of about 60 pilot whales was killed at the...

Noise Awareness Day: Ocean noise poses a threat to marine life

by OceanCare | 26/04/2022 | Media Release

Zurich/Vienna/Berlin, 26th April 2022 Ocean noise is an invisible pollutant mainly caused by shipping, offshore oil and gas exploration, deep-sea mining and military activities. On the occasion of the International Noise Awareness Day (27th of April), OceanCare...

Icelandic Whalers push to turn the tide to continue whaling

by OceanCare | 25/04/2022 | News

Running counter to the news earlier this year from Iceland, when the fisheries minister announced that whaling there made no economic sense and raising hopes worldwide that it would at long last cease by the end of 2023, two whaling enterprises have now stepped up to...

Plastic in human blood – How much more proof do we need before we act?

by OceanCare | 20/04/2022 | Blog

New research has found plastic particles in human blood samples. In 1972, we were warned for the first time about the dangers of plastic pollution, as researchers that year published two (1, 2) studies on the widespread presence of plastic particles in the ocean. In...

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