The world’s largest shipping and logistics conglomerate, MSC Group, is adjusting its ship routeing south of Sri Lanka to reduce collision risk with endangered blue whales after environmental NGOs OceanCare and IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) approached...
A South African court has upheld a ban imposed on the energy giant Shell from using seismic waves to explore for oil and gas off the Indian Ocean coast. The judgment, delivered in Makhanda, is a huge victory and relief for whales and other marine life. Shell was set...
When a large adult walrus (600kg/1,300lb) arrived in Oslo fjord in mid-July, she soon became a major attraction like many other marine mammals before her that have taken up residence somewhere outside of their normal territory and close to a major human settlement....
In July 2022, striped dolphins Stenella coeruleoalba living in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, have been classified as Endangered in the IUCN Red List. In 2020, another cetacean population that shares the same habitat with striped dolphins—the common dolphin Delphinus...
OceanCare is currently partaking in meetings at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston, Jamaica. The ISA is in the process of elaborating regulations for a new and highly destructive extractive industry: deep-sea mining. According to scientists, deep-sea...
In July 1982, the member nations of the international Whaling Commission (IWC) held an historic meeting at the Metropole Hotel in Brighton, UK, and agreed a global ban on commercial whaling, which remains in place today and is hailed as one of the most significant...
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