photo: copyright by Dan Jarvis, BDMLR What do you do if a walrus suddenly turns up in your ‘backyard’ far from its natural home? This is a dilemma that many people have been facing over the last few months as the world’s most famous walrus, Wally, made his grand tour...
A large oil slick off the coast of Orange County in the USA has started to wash ashore over the weekend affecting wildlife and wetlands. The slick is said to cover some 13 square miles (33 sq km) and is estimated in press reports at about 126,000 gallons (572,807...
Wädenswil, 23. September 2021: Just ten days after a mass killing of more than 1,400 Atlantic white-sided dolphins, the Faroe Islands saw another drive hunt yesterday, September 22nd. This time, 52 pilot whales were driven into a beach and cruelly killed. The marine...
The recent news from the Faroe Islands of a massive dolphin kill there on September 12th has caused concerns to be voiced all over the world and also in the islands themselves. Almost 1,500 Atlantic white-sided dolphins were killed in a single event. This is an...
Wädenswil/Switzerland, 14. September 2021. This Sunday, 12th of September 2021, the Skala Fjord in the east of the Faroese-Islands in the Atlantic has been the scene of one of the largest kills of dolphins in the history of these widely cirticised hunts. At least...
A big win for the protection of our oceans: Motion 069 on “Protection of deep-ocean ecosystems and biodiversity through a moratorium on seabed mining” was adopted at the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress (IUCN WCC) with an...
Climate crisis: Mediterranean Sea projected to heat up by 1.8 to 3.5 degrees until 2100 Climate offenders: New EMTER Report says that maritime transport is responsible for 5% of all greenhouse gas emissions from transport in the EU. If maritime shipping were a...
The ocean area along the southwestern coast of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, harbours a particularly rich biodiversity, including submarine grasslands, coastal reefs, marine turtles, seabirds and 20 species of cetaceans, among them a resident population...
Spain must step up and get the EU to revise its worrying stance on environmental impact assessment of activities that may cause transboundary pollution in the negotiations on the UN treaty on the governance of the high seas. Spain, as a country with a long maritime...
The EU thus sets an example to the International Maritime Organization on the need to establish a global market-based mechanism to reduce CO2 emissions in this very polluting sector. However, OceanCare considers it inconsistent and unhelpful from a climate point of...
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