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A new book calls for cleaning up our act: namely on beaches worldwide.

by OceanCare | 27/11/2018 | Media Release

Wädenswil/Vienna, 22 November 2018: Our oceans and beaches are increasingly mutating into waste dumps. Austrian marine biologist Dr. Michael Stachowitsch has tackled this pressing environmental issue in his new book “The Beachcomber’s Guide to Marine Debris” – and...

Whales relieved. Pandora’s box to resume commercial whaling remains closed.

by OceanCare | 14/09/2018 | Media Release

Florianópolis, Brazil, 14th September 2018. The last day of the Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) saw the long-awaited discussion about the package proposal submitted by the government of Japan called “A way forward”. The controversial proposal is...

International Whaling Commission: welcome to the future!

by OceanCare | 13/09/2018 | Media Release

Florianópolis, Brazil, 13th September 2018. The member states of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) have just adopted the so-called “Florianópolis Declaration” by a simple majority and have thus committed themselves to a historical reorientation of...

Listen! Whaling Commission in agreement over noise pollution as a threat

by OceanCare | 12/09/2018 | Media Release

Florianópolis, Brazil, 12th September 2018. On the third day of the Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the Member States adopted a Resolution that addresses the threat posed to cetaceans by anthropogenic noise by consensus. It positions the IWC as...

Vote to establish South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary fails

by OceanCare | 11/09/2018 | Media Release

Florianópolis, Brazil, 11th September 2018. The proposal by Argentina, Brazil, Gabon, South Africa and Uruguay to declare the South Atlantic a Whale Sanctuary has again not received the necessary support of a three-quarter majority at the second day of the...

Whale of a fight in Brazil: Will Whaling Commission harpoon whaling ban?

by OceanCare | 05/09/2018 | Media Release

67th Conference of the IWC to start September 10th in Florianópolis, Brazil Florianópolis, Brazil, 5th September 2018. “Will the International Whaling Commission become grown-up”, “will the status quo be cemented” or will the body make “two steps back to the future?”...

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