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...
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...
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....
Press release for the start of the UN High Seas Treaty (BBNJ) negotiations Press release OceanCare Zurich/Vienna/Berlin, 11. August 2022 High seas make up 2/3 of the ocean and are crucial in tackling the climate crisis Only about 1% of the high seas are protected...
Zurich, 29th of July 2022: This morning around 100 bottlenose dolphins were driven ashore in Skálafjörður in the Faroe Islands. Once ashore it appears that this whole school was killed, and it is likely that this was done by using knives or other sharp implements to...
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...
In the last few weeks, we have sadly seen the resumption of the killing of fin whales in Iceland and, in just the last few days, a notification from the Faroe Islands that they mean to continue and codify dolphin killing there. The two whaling ships owned by the...
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