Stories & News

Take your time and browse through our library. You will find a series of background stories on the conservation of the ocean and its inhabitants, many news and important publications.

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Stories
Press Releases
Publications

News

Climate Change – the Final Warning!

Climate Change

environmental pollution

Story

Research expeditions in the Spanish Mediterranean

Research Expeditions

News

New scientific paper emphasizes the major welfare concerns related to boat strikes on whales

Whales

Threats

Collisions

Press release

High Seas Treaty: New Treaty agreed to protect half the planet but formal adoption still required

Featured

Marine Protected Areas

Ocean Conservation

News

Highly unusual beaked whale strandings in Cyprus caused by naval exercises

Whales

Underwater Noise Pollution

News

Scientists warn: Noise from deep-sea mining would threaten whales

Underwater Noise Pollution

Deep-Sea Mining

Whales

Story

Major Shipping Company slows down to protect Whales

Underwater Noise Pollution

Whales

Featured

Publication

Informe: Aguas silenciosas para ballenas y delfines, 2021

Underwater Noise Pollution

Whales

Dolphins

Publication

Report: Quiet Waters for Whales and Dolphins, 2021

Underwater Noise Pollution

Whales

Dolphins

Publication

Briefing Plastic Pollution to the International Whaling Commission, 2022

Plastic Pollution

IWC

News

New study confirms ocean noise reduction from shipping when reducing vessel speed

Ocean Conservation

Threats

News

Report sheds new light on welfare concerns in the Faroes whale and dolphin hunts

Whales

Dolphins

Threats

News

New evidence published that European baleen whales may be shifting northwards as a response to climate change

Whales

Climate Change

News

Japan threatens to expand its whaling

Whales

Animal and Species Conservation

Story

The whaling scene in ‘Avatar-the way of water’ compared with real whale hunting

Whales

Animal and Species Conservation

Publication

Infographic EIA: Global Plastics Convention

Plastic Pollution

Publication

Report EIA: Convention on Plastic Pollution

Plastic Pollution

Publication

Annual report 2021

OceanCare

Story

From a laggard to a leader: Switzerland needs to become a plastics champion

Plastic Pollution

I Care

Featured

Publication

Factsheet OceanCare: Plastics in Switzerland 2023

Plastic Pollution

I Care

Publication

Report OceanCare: Plastic Matters 2022

I Care

Petitions

Plastic Pollution

Publication

Executive Summary Report OceanCare: Plastic Matters 2022

Petitions

Plastic Pollution

I Care

Press release

Europe's laggard - Switzerland cannot recycle its way out of its plastic problem

Plastic Pollution

environmental pollution

Story

UNCLOS BBNJ – High Seas Treaty

International Cooperation

Plastic Pollution

BBNJ

Press release

IMO regulates shipping in the NW Mediterranean to protect endangered whales

Whales

Marine Protected Areas

Collisions

News

Farewell to a whale champion

OceanCare

News

First Global Plastics Treaty Intergovernmental Meeting Concludes With a Mix of High and Low Points

Ocean Conservation

Plastic Pollution

Press release

The Mediterranean and Black Seas are not a safe place for whales and dolphins

Collisions

Whales

Threats

Press release

High-risk collision hotspots in the Mediterranean Sea: Urgent measures required to save whales from vanishing

Collisions

International Cooperation

Story

International Maritime Organisation (IMO)

Collisions

Underwater Noise Pollution

International Cooperation

Story

Deep-Sea mining: The noise hazard is increasing

Underwater Noise Pollution

Deep-Sea Mining

Story

Underwater noise: Milestones on the way to quieter oceans

Underwater Noise Pollution

Story

Who pollutes the ocean with noise?

Underwater Noise Pollution

Story

OceanCare’s call to reduce ocean noise

Underwater Noise Pollution

Story

The impacts of underwater noise on marine life

Underwater Noise Pollution

Dolphins

Fish

News

COP27: a missed opportunity also for the Mediterranean basin.

Underwater Noise Pollution

International Cooperation

Story

Will «Moby Dick» disappear from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea?

Whales

Collisions

Publication

Report: Atlantic White-Sided Dolphins in the NE Atlantic

Dolphins

Animal and Species Conservation

Publication

Under Pressure: The need to protect whales and dolphins in European waters

Whales

Dolphins

Story

Climate Giants – How whales help to fight climate change

Whales

Climate Change

Press release

COP27 host Egypt intensively searching for oil and gas in the ocean

Underwater Noise Pollution

International Cooperation

Publication

Underwater Noise Pollution: Joint Statement UN Ocean Conference 2022

Underwater Noise Pollution

Story

General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (FAO/GFCM)

International Cooperation

Fish

Press release

Switzerland has a plastic problem, and the majority of the Swiss population wants binding laws now

environmental pollution

Plastic Pollution

Threats

Story

Outrage at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission

International Cooperation

IWC

Publication

OceanCare Briefing: A 50-Year-Vision for the IWC

Whales

Animal and Species Conservation

IWC

Story

International Whaling Commission (IWC)

Whales

IWC

International Cooperation

Publication

Briefing OceanCare: Ocean Noise and the Sustainable Development Goals

Underwater Noise Pollution

Publication

Briefing OceanCare: Whaling and the Sustainable Development Goals

Animal and Species Conservation

IWC

Whales

Story

Ship strikes: The urgent need to slow down vessels

Whales

Collisions

Press release

OceanCare welcomes IFAW REPORT: New economic analysis of the impacts of vessel speed reduction in European waters: benefits clearly outweigh costs

Underwater Noise Pollution

Collisions

News

OceanCare Statement on debate about and in Antigua and Barbuda

Ocean Conservation

IWC

International Cooperation

Press release

Despite dramatic showdown: IWC keeps moratorium in place and takes a timid step towards a more conservation agenda

International Cooperation

IWC

Press release

Despite leaving, Japan still pulls the strings within Whaling Commission: IWC to start in Slovenia.

IWC

Whales

Press release

Pro-whaling nations threaten the demise of the IWC by pushing to resume commercial whaling

International Cooperation

IWC

Story

When the walrus comes knocking: a reflection on Wally and other out-of-habitat marine mammals

Seals

Animal and Species Conservation

Story

Hope for blue whales off Sri Lanka

Whales

Collisions

Story

SAvE Whales: Successful high-tech project to protect sperm whales

Whales

Collisions

Publication

UN BBNJ PrepCom II 2016: Statement OceanCare Ocean Noise Pollution

Marine Protected Areas

Ocean Conservation

BBNJ

Publication

UN BBNJ 2018: Intervention OceanCare

Plastic Pollution

Marine Protected Areas

Ocean Conservation

Publication

UN BBNJ IGC3 2020: Briefing OceanCare Transboundary Pollution

Underwater Noise Pollution

International Cooperation

Plastic Pollution

Publication

UN BBNJ IGC3 2019: Briefing OceanCare Transboundary Pollution (August)

Underwater Noise Pollution

International Cooperation

Plastic Pollution

Publication

UN BBNJ IGC3 2019: Briefing OceanCare Transboundary Pollution (July)

Chemical Pollution

BBNJ

Underwater Noise Pollution

Story

Research expedition: Protecting Dolphins in Greece

Research Expeditions

Story

Research expeditions and volunteer programmes on the Maldives

Research Expeditions

News

Positive news in South Africa

Underwater Noise Pollution

Press release

Major shipping company shifts lanes to help save Sri Lankan blue whales

Collisions

Whales

Marine Protected Areas

Story

Creating winds of change: 30 years of campaigning on Faroe Islands whale & dolphin hunts

Whales

Dolphins

Threats

News

Norwegian Prime Minister supports killing Freya the friendly walrus

Seals

Marine Protected Areas

Story

Tips for whale and dolphin tourism

Tips

Story

Tips on how to protect the sea during your holidays

Tips

Press release

We need an «environmental TUV certification» for the high seas!

Underwater Noise Pollution

Marine Protected Areas

BBNJ

Press release

Faroe Islanders kill some 100 bottlenose dolphins in a single cruel hunt

Dolphins

News

Intense discussions over Deep-Sea Mining

Deep-Sea Mining

Marine Protected Areas

News

40th anniversary of global ban on commercial whaling celebrated

Whales

International Cooperation

News

Iceland and the Faroe Islands continue to kill cetaceans

Whales

Dolphins

Press release

Faroese Fisheries Council proposes to continue dolphin slaughter

Dolphins

Story

A seal in pain

Seals

Press release

Second UN Ocean Conference: Nations should look below the surface

Underwater Noise Pollution

Deep-Sea Mining

International Cooperation

Press release

The world is on track to collectively fail to preserve LIFE BELOW WATER (SDG14)

International Cooperation

Marine Protected Areas

News

Iceland kills first fin whale in four years

Whales

Press release

German shipping association recommends re-routing ships to save endangered whales

Whales

News

Whaling in Iceland imminent despite new evidence of public concern

Whales

Threats

Press release

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

Whales

Animal Rescue

News

Some one hundred whales killed in the Faroe Islands in the second hunt of the year

Threats

Dolphins

Story

International Seabed Authority, ISA

Deep-Sea Mining

International Cooperation

Story

When night becomes day: A newly recognized problem

Threats

Story

Deep-sea mining: Moratorium against impending destructive exploitation

Deep-Sea Mining

Story

Deep-sea species: Biodiversity under extreme conditions

Deep-Sea Mining

Story

Deep-sea mining: Fatal consequences for marine life

Deep-Sea Mining

Story

Energy revolution: Metals instead of oil and gas from the sea?

Deep-Sea Mining

Publication

Marine Debris and International Forums, Report OceanCare

Plastic Pollution

Story

Deep-sea mining: Fatal consequences for marine life

Deep-Sea Mining

Press release

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

Dolphins

Publication

Annual report 2020

OceanCare

Publication

Underwater Noise Pollution: Quiet Waters for Whales and Dolpins 2021

Underwater Noise Pollution

Publication

Underwater Noise Pollution: Joint Statement UN Ocean Conference 2017

Underwater Noise Pollution

Publication

Underwater Noise Pollution: Reduce the Noise in EU Waters 2019

Underwater Noise Pollution

Publication

Underwater Noise Pollution: Recommendations SE Mediterranean Sea 2017

Underwater Noise Pollution

Publication

Underwater Noise Pollution: Neglected threat in the EU 2021

Underwater Noise Pollution

Publication

Underwater Noise Pollution: Impact on fish and invertebrates 2018

Underwater Noise Pollution

Publication

Underwater Noise Pollution: Mediterranean Hotspot

Underwater Noise Pollution

Publication

Underwater Noise Pollution: Cuvier's Beaked Whales

Underwater Noise Pollution

Publication

Dolphins & sharks: Factsheet Peru (E)

Publication

Underwater noise pollution: Cuvier's beaked whale & Mediterranean monk seal, report 2015

Underwater Noise Pollution

Publication

Dolphins and sharks: Hunt in Peru

Publication

Microplastics: Exposure in marine animals, report 2018

Plastic Pollution

Publication

Microplastic: Factsheet

Plastic Pollution

Publication

Microplastic: Infograph

Plastic Pollution

Publication

Plastic and Covid, Interview with Jane Muncke (FPF)

Plastic Pollution

Story

Plastic: Harmful throughout its entire life cycle

Plastic Pollution

Story

Warning: Plastic can endanger your health

Plastic Pollution

Story

Microplastics: Barely visible, yet anything but harmless

Plastic Pollution

Story

Reusable masks: Keeping us and the environment healthy

Plastic Pollution

Press release

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

Underwater Noise Pollution

Story

«Strip us!»: Freeing fruit and vegetables from plastic

Plastic Pollution

Publication

Strip us: Offener Brief an Detailhändler 2019

Plastic Pollution

News

Icelandic Whalers push to turn the tide to continue whaling

Whales

Story

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

Plastic Pollution

Press release

Iceland looks set to resume whaling again

Whales

News

UN High Seas Treaty: Progress but not there yet

BBNJ

International Cooperation

News

Japanese police investigate mercury in dolphin meat

Dolphins

News

Totoaba trade decision heavily criticised because of its likely impact on the critically endangered vaquita porpoise

Fish

Press release

Update on Greece: Oil exploration linked to stranding of protected whales off Corfu

Whales

Underwater Noise Pollution

Story

Environmental Multilateralism At Work: Final Round of UN High Seas Treaty Negotiations

BBNJ

Underwater Noise Pollution

Plastic Pollution

News

Spanish Mediterranean regions adopt declaration urging government to protect Cetaceans from underwater noise and ship strikes

Marine Protected Areas

Collisions

Underwater Noise Pollution

Press release

UNEA 5.2: Major Step Toward A Comprehensive Plastics Treaty

Plastic Pollution

Press release

OceanCare on IPCC report: Marine conservation is climate protection

Underwater Noise Pollution

International Cooperation

News

The GFCM teams up with OceanCare to protect the Mediterranean and the Black Sea

International Cooperation

News

Cook Islands government approves three seabed minerals exploration licenses

Deep-Sea Mining

Press release

Greece: Oil exploration linked to stranding of protected whales off Corfu

Underwater Noise Pollution

Whales

News

Update on the Dolphin Hunts in the Faroese Islands

Whales

Dolphins

Press release

One Ocean Summit: The commitments of the «High Ambition Coalition» are not ambitious enough to protect the ocean

Ocean Conservation

BBNJ

International Cooperation

News

Why Iceland’s announcement that it is abandoning whaling is so important

Whales

Threats

News

Good news: Iceland’s whales will be safe from harpoons from 2024

Whales

News

A Hunted Species: what we really know about Atlantic white-sided dolphins

Dolphins

News

Russia moves naval exercise outside of Irish waters and fishermen call for a ten-year moratorium

Underwater Noise Pollution

Press release

Major shipping company helps save endangered sperm whales in the Mediterranean

Whales

Marine Protected Areas

Threats

News

Whales threatened by military activities

Underwater Noise Pollution

Publication

Annual Report 2020

News

SaveMoby from Extinction

Whales

Publication

Annual report 2019

Publication

Deep-sea mining: Battery Regulation, EU-Submission OceanCare 2021

Deep-Sea Mining

Publication

Deep-sea mining: A noisy affair, Report OceanCare 2021

Deep-Sea Mining

Story

Tiefseebergbau: Die Lärmgefahr nimmt zu

Underwater Noise Pollution

Deep-Sea Mining

Press release

OceanCare: Generation change on a solid basis

OceanCare

Story

Dolphin research expeditions off the coast of Slovenia

Dolphins

Research Expeditions

Publication

Deep-sea mining: Standards & Guidelines, ISA-Submission OceanCare 2021

Deep-Sea Mining

Story

Virtual diplomacy – the new frontiers of the digital world

Underwater Noise Pollution

Plastic Pollution

BBNJ

News

The Global Pact for the Environment: the process is alive, but much work needs to be done

Ocean Conservation

News

New research findings emphasise the call for quieter oceans

Underwater Noise Pollution

News

BBNJ 2020 - urgent deadline: Fulfilling the duty of national governments to conserve and sustainably use the biological diversity of the high seas and deep seabed

Deep-Sea Mining

International Cooperation

Ocean Conservation

Publication

Recommendations: Mitigating ocean noise in the SE Mediterranean Sea

Underwater Noise Pollution

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