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Iceland to resume whaling under stricter conditions

Aug 31, 2023 (AFP)

Iceland is one of just three countries that allow commercial whaling, along with Norway and Japan, in the face of fierce criticism from environmentalists and an...

Huge blue whale washes ashore in southern Chile

Aug 06, 2023 (AFP)

Residents of the city of Ancud, on Chiloe island, first spotted the giant marine mammal Saturday on a Pacific ocean beach some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) sout...

Entire pod of 97 pilot whales dies in Australia beaching

Jul 27, 2023 (AFP)

The pod of 97 long-finned pilot whales gathered in shallow water off Cheynes Beach, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) southeast of Perth, on Tuesday, with scores...

In Quebec, seal hunters want public to see practice in new light

Jul 22, 2023 (AFP)

From the port of Grosse-Ile, the northern tip of the tiny Magdalen islands archipelago in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, he spots a group of seals sunning themselv...

Mama's boys: Elder orca moms protect sons from fights

Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)

That's according to a new scientific paper published Thursday in Current Biology, which found female killer whales that have undergone menopause prevent their s...

Scientists puzzled by killer whale boat attacks off Spain

Jun 12, 2023 (AFP)

"They directly attacked the rudder, not swimming around the boat, not playing with anything," Friedrich Sommer told AFP as he recalled how his sailboat Muffet w...

Vaquitas still exist, but barely: Experiment halted in Norway after whale drowns

Jun 07, 2023 (AFP)

The vaquita is the smallest of all porpoises, similar to dolphins but with shorter beaks and more rounded bodies. They perish in nets used to illegally catch to...

Tracking whales as they cruise the Arctic

May 10, 2023 (SPX)

Now, working with two nearly parallel fibre-optic telecommunications cables off the Norwegian arctic archipelago of Svalbard, researchers have been able to esti...

Cambodian leader U-turns on rare dolphin conservation law

Apr 27, 2023 (AFP)

The population of Irrawaddy dolphins in the river Mekong has dwindled from 200, when the first census was taken in 1997, to just 89 in 2020 largely due to illeg...

Albania pushes out boat to save world's rarest seal

Apr 12, 2023 (AFP)

Mediterranean monk seals were once abundant, but now there are only a few hundred left in small scattered groups off Albania, Greece and Turkey and in Mauritani...

Mexico sanctioned for not protecting endangered porpoise

Mar 28, 2023 (AFP)

The trade sanctions issued by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) prevent Mexico from exporting millions of dollars worth of reg...

The battle to save Cambodia's river dolphins from extinction

Mar 22, 2023 (AFP)

The thrilling sight may soon be no more than a memory, as numbers of the endangered mammals dwindle despite efforts to preserve them. Cambodia has announced tou...

French court orders fishing bans to protect dolphins

Mar 20, 2023 (AFP)

The move by the State Council, the highest court in government matters, comes days after an oceanographic institute reported that at least 910 dolphins had wash...

France reports 910 dolphins washed up on Atlantic coast

Mar 17, 2023 (AFP)

Over the past week alone, more than 400 of the marine mammals were found stranded along the coast, an "unprecedented" number, the Pelagis oceanographic observat...

'Surgical' shark-killing orcas fascinate off South Africa

Mar 04, 2023 (AFP)

Marine biologists were alerted to the find by beach walkers who stumbled upon the grim sight last week in Gansbaai, a small fishing port 150 kilometres (93 mile...

Narwhals' climate-vulnerable winter feeding crucial for survival

Feb 22, 2023 (AFP)

Scientists studying the long-horned marine mammals in the fjords off the eastern coast of Greenland during the summer found narwhals were largely unsuccessful i...

Two endangered pink dolphins rescued from shallow Colombia river

Feb 21, 2023 (AFP)

A navy video released on Monday shows several officers carrying the dolphins in a makeshift hammock, others checking the mammals' condition and spraying them wi...

Whale warning as clock ticks towards deep-sea mining

Feb 16, 2023 (SPX)

Commercial-scale deep seabed mining in international waters could be permitted for the first time later this year. In a new paper, scientists from the Universit...

Deep-sea mining noise pollution threatens whales: study

Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)

A study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science found that commercial-scale extraction of valuable minerals from the ocean floor, which could begin for the f...

Study suggests dolphins in Brazil are training humans to fish

Jan 31, 2023 (UPI)

The results of the analysis, conducted by Mauricio Cantor, a behavioral ecologist at Oregon State University, Corvallis, were published Monday in the Proceeding...