Blog by Fabienne McLellan, Programme Lead at OceanCare on ending directed takes of marine mammals Petition Image “End the Faroese Whale and Dolphin hunts!” The tricky case of archaic whale hunts in the remote archipelago of the Faroe IslandsIn...
On a recent visit to a seal colony in northwest Wales in the UK, OceanCare’s Director of Science, Mark Simmonds, spotted the animal in this photograph and we are sorry if this image causes anyone distress but we wanted her story to be known. She was sitting a little...
Iceland has resumed the hunting of fin whales in the northeast Atlantic. This new whaling season is one that many of us had hoped would not start and especially after the Icelandic Fisheries minister boldly highlighted earlier this year that their whaling made no...
Laetitia Nunny and Mark Simmonds Do you ever look up at the night sky and feel that the stars are disappearing; and somehow, they seem less bright than they used to be? This is one facet of a phenomenon coming increasingly into focus as a significant threat to wild...
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...
The start to 2022 has been a busy time for global environmental multilateralism. Early February governments assembled in Brest, France for the One Ocean Summit, introducing the newly formed High Ambition Coalition (HAC) on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction...
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