In a meeting with high-level represenatatives of the Spanish Ministry of Environment on the 1st of September, 2017, Nicolas Entrup for OceanCare and NRDC, and [...]
While the new French government announced a legislative initiative to ban further oil exploration, a similar initiative in Spain was blocked by the government. Further [...]
While whale watching tourism is booming in Iceland, uninformed tourists increasingly fuel whaling in Icelandic waters, as they "taste" whale meat oder buy souvenirs made [...]
Underwater noise pollution from ships is a chronic, global stressor impacting a wide range of marine species. Ambient ocean noise levels nearly doubled each decade [...]
On the 1st of April 2017, this year's whaling season started, which will bring a painful death to up to 999 minke whales, many of [...]
On March 13th, 2017, ‘Dynamic Manta’, a large-scale NATO manoeuvre, started in the Mediterranean. At the same time, a five-meter Cuvier’s beaked whale stranded in [...]
Oil spills have a devastating effect on marine life and coastal communities. Unfortunately, oil pollution has become an integrated part of the oil and gas [...]
One of the largest mass strandings of cetaceans seems to have ended by Sunday, 12th of February, 2017. Since Friday, about 670 pilot whales stranded [...]
A movement in motion! Under the motto “I run – You give – We help”, the initiative “Home Run – we run for homeless” supports [...]
On Friday, January 6th, 2017, “Tilikum”, a male orca kept in captivity by SeaWorld, passed away. Over the years, he had been involved in three [...]
