In the early hours of Sunday 16 July, a pod of 55 long-finned pilot whales stranded on the beautiful, remote Traigh Mhor beach on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. The stranding was first attended by British Divers Marine Life Rescue, Stornoway Coastguard and other local authorities. A rescue attempt was made and one […]
The appalling cruelty of fin whale hunting in Iceland has been laid bare in a new report by the country’s own veterinary experts
New EIA research has revealed that more than 100,000 small cetaceans have been slaughtered in poorly regulated hunts off Greenland during the past three decades
Thanks to a welcome French court decision, thousands of common dolphins in the Bay of Biscay will be saved from entanglement and death in fishing gear.
After nearly two decades of negotiations, the member states of the United Nations last week in New York agreed an historic treaty to protect the high seas
The biennial meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC68) has ended with good news and bad news for whales and dolphins