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Press releaseJun 13, 2025
OceanCare at UNOC3: Offshore Fossil Fuel Exploration Must Stop Now
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Fossil Fuels United Nations
Press releaseJun 11, 2025
Powerful international coalition to tackle underwater noise launched at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Underwater Noise Pollution United Nations
Press releaseJun 08, 2025
114,559 Citizens Call for Ocean Protection as OceanCare Delivers Petition to UN Special Envoy
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue United Nations
Press releaseJun 06, 2025
Marine Expert Warn: Ocean Health Has Deteriorated Since Last UN Ocean Conference
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue United Nations
Press releaseJun 03, 2025
Over 200 NGOs Call for Urgent Action on Offshore Fossil Fuel Exploration Ahead of UN Conference in Nice
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Fossil Fuels Underwater Noise Pollution
Press releaseMay 29, 2025
EU Ratification of High Seas Treaty: Critical Progress as Global Ocean Conference Approaches
Read nowBBNJ
Press releaseMay 22, 2025
Two More Sperm Whales Killed by Ship Strikes in Canary Islands Highlight Urgent Need for Vessel Speed Reduction
Read nowCollisions Shipping Whales
Press releaseMay 08, 2025
SAvE Whales: Turning Vision into Action to Mitigate Ship Strikes
Read nowSaveWhales Shipping Whales
Press releaseApr 11, 2025
New study: Storms Put Grey Seal Pups at Risk as Climate Change Intensifies
Read nowAnimal Rescue Climate Change Seals
Press releaseApr 02, 2025
Global Call on Governments to Commit Banning Offshore Fossil Fuel Exploration at UN Ocean Conference
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Fossil Fuels United Nations
Press releaseMar 26, 2025
When Walruses Wander: New Study Charts Course for Helping Displaced Marine Mammals
Read nowAnimal Rescue Out of Habitat Whales
Press releaseMar 17, 2025
Spanish Government Urged to Advance Mediterranean Protection Efforts
Read nowMarine Protected Areas
Press releaseMar 03, 2025
Race to Ratify High Seas Treaty: 42 More Countries Needed to Protect Ocean Biodiversity
Read nowBBNJ International Cooperation United Nations
Press releaseFeb 26, 2025
Global Instability Highlights Need for Bold European Leadership on Ocean Protection
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Climate Change Fossil Fuels
Press releaseFeb 04, 2025
New EU Maritime Transport Assessment Reveals Sustainability Challenges
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue European Union Shipping
Press releaseJan 15, 2025
Finally – Switzerland to Sign the UN High Seas Treaty
Read nowBBNJ Marine Protected Areas United Nations
Press releaseJan 08, 2025
New Publication Examines Ecocide Concept for Marine Environments – Focus on Bottom Trawling
Read nowBottom Trawling Fisheries International Law
Press releaseDec 05, 2024
Iceland defies world opinion and resumes commercial whaling on fin and minke whales
Read nowWhale Hunting
Press releaseDec 03, 2024
UN Negotiations in Busan: Bridge Built Towards Historic Global Plastics Treaty
Read nowPlastic Pollution United Nations
Press releaseNov 21, 2024
Final Negotiations Begin: The World Needs a Strong Treaty to End Plastic Pollution
Read nowInternational Law Plastic Pollution
Press releaseOct 23, 2024
Tackling the Trawl Supremacy: OceanCare releases report highlighting need for global action on destructive bottom trawling
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Bottom Trawling Fisheries
Press releaseSep 27, 2024
IWC meeting strengthens whaling moratorium
Read nowIWC Species Conservation Whales
Press releaseSep 20, 2024
OceanCare will defend global efforts to protect whales at pivotal IWC meeting in Peru
Read nowIWC Species Conservation Whales
Press releaseJul 31, 2024
OceanCare Welcomes Austrian Opposition to Deep-Sea Mining
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining
Press releaseJul 26, 2024
Deep-Sea Mining: ISA Meeting is Urged to Put Environment and Climate First
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining
Press releaseJul 23, 2024
New Report Exposes Acute Welfare Issues in Faroe Pilot Whale Hunt
Read nowDolphins Faroe Islands Species Conservation
Press releaseJul 08, 2024
Limiting ship speed is necessary to prevent extinction of great whales in the North-Western Mediterranean
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Collisions Shipping
Press releaseJun 19, 2024
SAvE Whales: Implementation agreement with Greece signed
Read nowCollisions Whales
Press releaseJun 11, 2024
Iceland’s decision to issue new whale killing quota condemned by conservation experts
Read nowIWC Whales
Press releaseJun 11, 2024
Japan Announces Whaling Expansion: Death Sentence for North Pacific Fin Whales
Read nowIWC Whales
Press releaseJun 10, 2024
Because Our Planet Is Blue – international initiative launched
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Climate Change Petitions
Press releaseMay 21, 2024
International Court: States have legal duty to restore and protect marine habitats
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Climate Change International Cooperation
Press releaseMay 09, 2024
OceanCare appalled by Japan’s plans to add fin whales to its North Pacific whale hunt
Read nowWhales
Press releaseApr 30, 2024
Effective global Plastics Treaty is possible, but ambitions must be raised
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Plastic Pollution
Press releaseApr 30, 2024
UN member states urged to tackle plastics crisis at heart in new global treaty
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue International Cooperation Plastic Pollution
Press releaseApr 22, 2024
OceanCare urges UN governments to show ambition at crucial negotiating meeting on global Plastics Treaty
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Plastic Pollution
Press releaseApr 17, 2024
Scientists, civil society and Greek government to deploy technology to prevent ship strikes on sperm whales in the Kythera strait
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Collisions Shipping
Press releaseFeb 29, 2024
Debate at UN environmental summit highlights need for global ban on solar geoengineering
Read nowClimate Change
Press releaseFeb 26, 2024
Protecting marine ecosystems and geoengineering Pandora’s box on the agenda of UN environment ministers
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Geoengineering Marine Protected Areas
Press releaseFeb 17, 2024
UN body issues warning on ecological risks of deep-sea mining
Read nowDeep-Sea Mining Species Conservation
Press releaseFeb 12, 2024
A wake-up call from the UN: Conservation status of many migratory species is deteriorating
Read nowAquatic Wild Meat Species Conservation
Press releaseFeb 07, 2024
UN meeting in Uzbekistan to find solutions for endangered migratory species
Read nowAquatic Wild Meat Species Conservation
Press releaseFeb 01, 2024
New study: Urgent science-based conservation action needed for Adriatic whales and dolphins
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Dolphins Species Conservation
Press releaseDec 04, 2023
Call for a Carbon Budget for the Mediterranean Region
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Climate Change Underwater Noise Pollution
Press releaseNov 19, 2023
Plastics Treaty Negotiations: Effective Instrument to Stem the Plastic Tide Remains within Reach
Read nowPlastic Pollution
Press releaseNov 06, 2023
Clean-Ups or Clean-Washing? Plastic Clean-Up Tech not all it seems on the Surface
Read nowPlastic Pollution
Press releaseSep 25, 2023
New Report Debunks Claims of Whale and Dolphin Hunters in Faroe Islands
Read nowDolphins Faroe Islands Species Conservation
Press releaseSep 20, 2023
High Seas Alliance applauds countries joining the High Seas Treaty ‘Race for Ratification’
Read nowBBNJ
Press releaseSep 15, 2023
International recognition of iconic whale and dolphin paradises of the South American Atlantic coast
Read nowIUCN Species Conservation
Press releaseAug 31, 2023
Harpoons to be fired again as Iceland resumes its fin whale hunt
Read nowIWC Whale Hunting Whales
Press releaseAug 19, 2023
Sailors shoot at critically endangered Orcas in Spanish waters
Read nowOrcas Species Conservation Whales
Press releaseAug 07, 2023
Vaquita Extinction Alert. Just 10 animals remain.
Read nowSpecies Conservation Vaquita
Press releaseJul 17, 2023
Governments meet at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) to decide fate of the deep-sea
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining International Cooperation
Press releaseJul 07, 2023
More shadows than lights at crucial IMO meeting
Read nowClimate Change Collisions Shipping
Press releaseJul 06, 2023
NEWS from the IMO in London: NW-Mediterranean declared as PSSA to protect endangered whales from ship strikes!
Read nowCollisions Shipping Whales
Press releaseJun 28, 2023
OceanCare welcomes Switzerland’s positioning for a moratorium on deep-sea mining
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Deep-Sea Mining
Press releaseJun 28, 2023
Global pressure on IMO to take key decisions on decarbonisation of shipping and to protect whales from strikes
Read nowClimate Change Collisions Shipping
Press releaseJun 19, 2023
High Seas Alliance applauds adoption of High Seas Treaty and calls for swift ratification
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Marine Protected Areas
Press releaseJun 08, 2023
Three industrial sectors have the tools to quieten the ocean
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue International Cooperation Shipping
Press releaseJun 02, 2023
With only half of the week spent on substantive discussion, treaty negotiations end with lackluster outcomes
Read nowInternational Cooperation Plastic Pollution
Press releaseJun 01, 2023
Major Danish shipping company strives for a brighter future for endangered sperm whales in Greek waters
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Collisions Shipping
Press releaseMay 17, 2023
French Shipowners Association calling on Members helping to protect endangered whales
Read nowBecause Our Planet Is Blue Collisions Shipping
Press releaseMar 05, 2023
High Seas Treaty: New Treaty agreed to protect half the planet but formal adoption still required
Read nowInternational Cooperation Marine Protected Areas
Press releaseJan 09, 2023
Europe’s laggard – Switzerland cannot recycle its way out of its plastic problem
Read nowPlastic Pollution
Press releaseDec 15, 2022
IMO regulates shipping in the NW Mediterranean to protect endangered whales
Read nowCollisions International Cooperation Marine Protected Areas
Press releaseDec 05, 2022
The Mediterranean and Black Seas are not a safe place for whales and dolphins
Read nowCollisions Whales
Press releaseNov 28, 2022
High-risk collision hotspots in the Mediterranean Sea: Urgent measures required to save whales from vanishing
Read nowCollisions International Cooperation Shipping
Press releaseNov 06, 2022
COP27 host Egypt intensively searching for oil and gas in the ocean
Read nowInternational Cooperation Underwater Noise Pollution
Press releaseOct 31, 2022
Switzerland has a plastic problem, and the majority of the Swiss population wants binding laws now
Read nowPlastic Pollution
Press releaseOct 25, 2022
IFAW REPORT: Economic analysis of impacts of vessel speed reduction in European waters
Read nowCollisions Shipping Underwater Noise Pollution
Press releaseOct 21, 2022
IWC keeps moratorium in place and takes timid step towards a more conservation agenda
Read nowInternational Cooperation IWC
Press releaseOct 17, 2022
Despite leaving, Japan still pulls the strings within Whaling Commission
Read nowInternational Cooperation IWC Whales
Press releaseOct 13, 2022
Pro-whaling nations threaten the demise of the IWC by pushing to resume commercial whaling
Read nowInternational Cooperation IWC
Press releaseSep 08, 2022
Major shipping company shifts lanes to help save Sri Lankan blue whales
Read nowCollisions Shipping Whales
Press releaseAug 11, 2022
We need an «environmental TUV certification» for the high seas!
Read nowBBNJ International Cooperation Marine Protected Areas
Press releaseJul 29, 2022
Faroe Islanders kill some 100 bottlenose dolphins in a single cruel hunt
Read nowFaroe Islands
Press releaseJul 11, 2022
Faroese Fisheries Council proposes to continue dolphin slaughter
Read nowFaroe Islands
Press releaseJul 01, 2022
Second UN Ocean Conference: Outcome
Read nowInternational Cooperation
Press releaseJun 24, 2022
UN Ocean Conference: On Track to Fail SDG14 – Life Below Water
Read nowInternational Cooperation Marine Protected Areas
Press releaseJun 21, 2022
German shipping association recommends re-routing ships to save endangered whales
Read nowCollisions Shipping
Press releaseMay 30, 2022
Successful high-tech project to protect the last sperm whales in the Mediterranean Sea
Read nowAnimal Rescue Whales
Press releaseMay 08, 2022
Faroe Islands: 60 pilot whales killed in first hunt of the year
Read nowFaroe Islands
Press releaseApr 27, 2022
Noise Awareness Day: Ocean noise poses a threat to marine life
Read nowUnderwater Noise Pollution
Press releaseMar 23, 2022
Iceland looks set to resume whaling again
Read nowWhales
Press releaseMar 10, 2022
Update on Greece: Oil exploration linked to stranding of protected whales off Corfu
Read nowUnderwater Noise Pollution Whales
Press releaseMar 02, 2022
UNEA 5.2: Major Step Toward A Comprehensive Plastics Treaty
Read nowInternational Cooperation Plastic Pollution
Press releaseFeb 28, 2022
OceanCare on IPCC report: Marine conservation is climate protection
Read nowClimate Change International Cooperation
Press releaseFeb 20, 2022
Greece: Oil exploration linked to stranding of protected whales off Corfu
Read nowUnderwater Noise Pollution Whales
Press releaseFeb 11, 2022
One Ocean Summit: Commitments of «High Ambition Coalition» not ambitious enough
Read nowBBNJ International Cooperation
Press releaseJan 27, 2022
Major shipping company helps save endangered sperm whales in the Mediterranean
Read nowCollisions Marine Protected Areas Whales
Press releaseDec 21, 2021
EU Member States Condemn Faroe Islands Drive Hunts
Read nowDolphins Whales
Press releaseDec 09, 2021
The Mediterranean is not a safe home for all whale and dolphin species
Read nowDolphins Whales
Press releaseDec 02, 2021
International Whaling Commission (IWC) at the crossroads
Read nowIWC Whales
Press releaseNov 30, 2021
OceanCare: Generation change on a solid basis
Read nowOceanCare
Press releaseNov 21, 2021
Underwater noise: The hidden danger of deep-sea mining
Read nowDeep-Sea Mining Underwater Noise Pollution
Press releaseNov 16, 2021
Call on Spain to become pioneer in protecting Cetaceans from underwater noise pollution
Read nowUnderwater Noise Pollution
Press releaseSep 23, 2021
Once again: Dolphin killing in the Faroe Islands
Read nowFaroe Islands
Press releaseSep 14, 2021
OceanCare criticizes massive kill of Atlantic white-sided dolphins off the Faroese-Islands
Read nowDolphins Faroe Islands
Press releaseSep 02, 2021
Slow down: Reducing shipping speed helps tackle the climate crisis with immediate effect
Read nowClimate Change
Press releaseJul 16, 2021
Can Whale Poo Help Save the Planet?
Read nowClimate Change IWC Whales
Press releaseJul 14, 2021
OceanCare welcomes inclusion of shipping in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Read nowClimate Change
Press releaseJul 01, 2021
Single-use plastics pollution: Where does Europe stand?
Read nowPlastic Pollution
Press releaseMay 13, 2021
Spain bans any new oil and gas exploration and exploitation by law
Read nowClimate Change