OceanCare News
Seismic surveys reduce cetacean sightings across a large marine ecosystem
New study from University College Cork increases concerns over ocean noise impacts. In spite of the worsening climate crisis, the petroleum industry is still searching for unknown hydrocarbon deposits in the seabed. Hydrocarbon exploration uses airguns fired by...
Spanish Whale Migration corridor declared specially protected Area of Mediterranean Importance
Naples, December 3, 2019: On the second day of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the Barcelona Convention (Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean), the area between the Balearic Islands and the Spanish mainland has been formally approved as...
Traffic rules for shipping in important whale and dolphin habitat is essential, conservationists say
Istanbul, 8th November 2019: Today, the 7th Meeting of the Parties (MoP) to the Agreement for the protection of whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean and Black Seas (ACCOBAMS) came to a close. The government of the Republic of Turkey – which became the most recent...
In the spotlight: SaveMoby. Focused and solution-oriented.
On the first day of the Seventh Meeting of the Parties to the Agreement for the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Mediterranean and Black Seas (ACCOBAMS), OceanCare invites the government representatives of the coastal states to a side event to present the SAVE MOBY...
OCEANCARE WELCOMES THE CLOSURE OF TWO FILES TO SEARCH FOR HYDROCARBONS WITHIN THE SPANISH WHALE MIGRATION CORRIDOR
OceanCare demands the Greek government to protect the Hellenic Trench and its endangered marine wildlife from the menace of hydrocarbon exploration projects Zurich/Madrid, 4 November 2019: OceanCare welcomes the positive news about the closure of two files to search...
It’s the best cetacean conservation agreement on paper, but is it turning into a fig leaf for failure?
OceanCare has been working hard to protect whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean for many years. It is an ambitious struggle, a mixture of success and setbacks. It’s a huge challenge to protect life in a marine habitat which is under massive pressure from human...
Silvia Frey sets new sails
Upon conclusion of the 2019 cetacean research season, Silvia Frey ends her long-standing engagement with OceanCare. She joined us in 1997 as a research associate and in 2000 took over the management of the cetacean research programme, which quickly developed into an...
The Hellenic Trench is important for marine mammals.
Canyons are striking landscape features, providing habitat for a great diversity of wildlife. The same is true for marine canyons. One very remarkable underwater canyon is the Hellenic Trench in the eastern Mediterranean, which stretches across more than 50,000 km²...
After 20 years, OceanCare successfully completes its field research in the Mediterranean Sea and presents its findings in relevant fora
From 2000 to 2015 OceanCare carried out a monitoring project in the Pelagos Sanctuary in the Corso-Liguro-Provencal sector of the Mediterranean Sea and documented the temporal and spatial distribution of cetaceans in this area during 6-8 weeks and several hundred...
Japanese court rules in favour of dolphin conservationist Ric O’Barry
Ric O’Barry is a tireless fighter for dolphin protection. For many years he has been travelling to Japan to document the dolphin hunt in the Taiji cove and to support local conservationists – until 2016, when the Japanese government decided to deport Ric O’Barry from...