Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, May 8, 2022: Yesterday, Saturday, May 7, a so-called ‘grindadrap’ (whale drive-hunt) occurred on the Faroe Islands for the first time this year. Eyewitnesses report that an entire school consisting of about 60 pilot whales was killed at the...
Zurich/Vienna/Berlin, 26th April 2022 Ocean noise is an invisible pollutant mainly caused by shipping, offshore oil and gas exploration, deep-sea mining and military activities. On the occasion of the International Noise Awareness Day (27th of April), OceanCare...
Running counter to the news earlier this year from Iceland, when the fisheries minister announced that whaling there made no economic sense and raising hopes worldwide that it would at long last cease by the end of 2023, two whaling enterprises have now stepped up to...
New research has found plastic particles in human blood samples. In 1972, we were warned for the first time about the dangers of plastic pollution, as researchers that year published two (1, 2) studies on the widespread presence of plastic particles in the ocean. In...
While only one month ago, the Icelandic fisheries minister, Svandis Svavarsdottir, announced that the government licences for whaling will likely not be re-issued when the existing quotas expire in 2023, pointing to the lack of any economic justification for the...
18th of March 2022 (New York) Today marks the end of the fourth round (IGC 4) of UN High Seas Treaty negotiations set to protect two thirds of our planet. Unfortunately, the keenly awaited final round of negotiations of – an almost 20-year process- in achieving...
In a very surprising and highly controversial decision made on March 11, 2022, the Standing Committee of CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) decided that international trade in the totoaba can resume. The totoaba...
Police in Wakayama Prefecture in Japan have started a formal investigation into the levels of mercury in dolphin meat being sold in the town of Taiji. This is the result of a criminal complaint brought forward by the organisation ‘Action for Dolphins’. The complaint...
Update on whale strandings in Corfu On the 20th and 21st of February, three live Cuvier’s beaked whales stranded on Corfu. This highly atypical stranding coincided with seismic hydrocarbon exploration in ‘Block 3’ on behalf of the oil company Hellenic Petroleum. Corfu...
The start to 2022 has been a busy time for global environmental multilateralism. Early February governments assembled in Brest, France for the One Ocean Summit, introducing the newly formed High Ambition Coalition (HAC) on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction...
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