1st Conference on Marine Mammal Protected Areas
The first ever conference on Marine Mammal Protected Areas will be held on the island of Maui in Hawai’I from March 29 – April 3, 2009. The theme is MPA Networks and Networking: Making Connections. The...
View ArticleA worldwide web for whales
WDCS Press Communication A worldwide web for whales: The special places where whales and dolphins live and the people who know them. Maui, Hawaii, 3rd April 2009: On the final day of the first...
View ArticleFirst high seas MPA in the Antarctic Region
The first high seas Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Antarctic region has been declared in an area south of the South Orkney Islands. The proposal was successfully pitched by the UK delegation to the...
View ArticleA Message from Erich Hoyt
A Message from Erich Hoyt on Defending Antarctic Toothfish in the Ross Sea: I am a whale researcher and conservationist, writes Erich Hoyt, Senior Research Fellow with the Whale and Dolphin...
View ArticleKeep wild animals wild – they’re not circus freaks
The death of Dawn Brancheau in Orlando was tragic and my heart goes out to her family and friends. I understand it was her dream since the first time she visited SeaWorld to train marine mammals and I...
View ArticleImpact of the Gulf tragedy on marine life?
I can’t tear myself away from the coverage of the Gulf oil tragedy. It seems the solution to stopping the flow is days if not weeks away. I wonder why oil tankers aren’t being used to contain the oil...
View ArticleA FALL FROM FREEDOM
A powerful and factual documentary on the often emotional issue of keeping cetaceans (whales & dolphins) in captivity. A FALL FROM FREEDOM is the first film to expose the long and sordid history of...
View ArticleReview: MPAs for Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises
MarineBio’s director of all things cetacean and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society’s Senior Research Fellow and Global Critical Habitat/ Marine Protected Area Programme Leader, Erich Hoyt, has...
View ArticleIUCN Press release: Whales & dolphins need more protected areas
For more information, review copies or to set up interviews, please contact: Ewa Magiera, IUCN Media Relations, t +41 22 999 0346, m +41 76 505 33 78, ewa.magiera@iucn.org For immediate release:...
View ArticleSo You Want to Free Willy, Too
Written by Nate Green After watching Ric O’Barry in The Cove, it’s hard not to want to free any dolphin you come across in captivity. O’Barry has been at the forefront of dolphin rescue since the...
View ArticleDolphin Mass Deaths In The Gulf Of Mexico
Source: planetsave.com via MarineBio Conservation Society The BP oil spill, the largest ever oil spill on open water to date, contributed significantly to the historically high number of dolphin deaths...
View ArticleThe World’s Rarest Whales
The appearance of the world’s rarest whales has been recorded for the first time after a mother and her calf washed up on beach in New Zealand in 2010. Spade-toothed beaked whales (Mesoplodon traversii...
View ArticleWhat are animals thinking and feeling?
Everyone should watch this…. From the author of some of our favorites books: “Song for the Blue Ocean”, “Eye of the Albatross” and recently “Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel”, Dr. Carl Safina,...
View Article
