OceanCare News
Pre-screening of the documentary “Whale like me”
250 people followed the invitation by OceanCare and Shifting Values on 9th of October to attend a special pre-screening of the documentary "Whale like me" in Vienna. The interest was overwhelming and at least another hundred or more people could have joined the...
read moreWhales relieved. Pandora’s box to resume commercial whaling remains closed.
Florianópolis, Brazil, 14th September 2018. The last day of the Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) saw the long-awaited discussion about the package proposal submitted by the government of Japan called “A way forward”. The controversial proposal is...
read moreInternational Whaling Commission: welcome to the future!
Florianópolis, Brazil, 13th September 2018. The member states of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) have just adopted the so-called "Florianópolis Declaration" by a simple majority and have thus committed themselves to a historical reorientation of the...
read moreListen! Whaling Commission in agreement over noise pollution as a threat
Florianópolis, Brazil, 12th September 2018. On the third day of the Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the Member States adopted a Resolution that addresses the threat posed to cetaceans by anthropogenic noise by consensus. It positions the IWC as...
read moreVote to establish South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary fails
Florianópolis, Brazil, 11th September 2018. The proposal by Argentina, Brazil, Gabon, South Africa and Uruguay to declare the South Atlantic a Whale Sanctuary has again not received the necessary support of a three-quarter majority at the second day of the...
read moreWhale of a fight in Brazil: Will Whaling Commission harpoon whaling ban?
67th Conference of the IWC to start September 10th in Florianópolis, Brazil Florianópolis, Brazil, 5th September 2018. “Will the International Whaling Commission become grown-up”, “will the status quo be cemented” or will the body make “two steps back to the future?”...
read moreWorld’s first legally binding treaty to protect the High Seas: Landmark UN negotiations open
New York, 4 September 2018: Treaty negotiations to conserve and protect nearly two thirds of the ocean open today at the United Nations (UN) in what is widely regarded as the greatest opportunity in a generation to turn the tide on ocean degradation and biodiversity...
read moreCelebrating Africa Day of Seas and Oceans with the launch of a new Partnership for aquatic species
Abidjan/Wädenswil, 26 July 2018: This week on 25th July, there was a perfect reason to celebrate the Africa Day of Seas and Oceans, as OceanCare alongside partner organisations, concluded the first official meeting of the Abidjan Aquatic Wildlife Partnership (AAWP)....
read moreMilestone for marine conservation: United Nations focus on underwater noise
The United Nations Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea concluded its 19th meeting (ICP19) on the 22nd of June 2018 in New York, USA. This year’s meeting focused on the issue of anthropogenic underwater noise. The report summing up the...
read moreThe United Nations take a look beyond the surface of the world’s Oceans
New York/Wädenswil, 14th June 2018: Honking car drivers on 5th Avenue, rock concerts or cheering audiences in Madison Square Garden, after-work parties and dance-clubs; these might be images people think of when being told that increasing noise levels and disturbance...
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