Tag: dolphins-porpoises

The scene: INC-5.2 negotiations collapse in Geneva World leaders, negotiators, campaigners and corporate lobbyists assembled in Geneva’s Palais des Nations last month for what was intended to be the final, decisive round of talks to establish a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty. INC-5.2, the extended fifth session of the UN’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, was intended […]

This Sunday (8 June) is United Nations World Oceans Day and the theme for 2025 is ‘Wonder: Sustaining what sustains us’.  The ocean sustains we humans in many ways – capturing carbon, providing wellbeing and as a source of nutrition, with fishing an age-old world-wide tradition. Today, with a new production high of more than […]

Hundreds of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as cetaceans) are bycaught in fishing gear every year and tens of thousands die in European waters. This has been happening for decades. Governments have been slow to act, to understand bycatch impacts and, more critically, to prevent bycatch from happening despite stringent laws in […]

Almost four decades after the 1986 global moratorium on commercial whaling put an end to the mass slaughter of whales, opposition to commercial whaling around the world is stronger than ever. Yet as we mark World Whale Day 2025, Japan, Norway and Iceland – three of the world’s wealthiest nations that otherwise generally abide by […]

In May, Spain’s maritime rescue service reported the sinking of a yacht after orcas rammed the hull and rudder of the boat in the latest in a series of such incidents around the Strait of Gibraltar

Despite decades of scientific attention to this issue, there are no harbour porpoise populations in European waters where bycatch has been adequately managed and prevented