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Birth announcement! First right whale calf of the 2024 calving season spotted

November 29, 2023 - On November 28th, researchers from the Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute...
© Peter Flood

Two New England-based nonprofits awarded nearly $400k federal grant

© Peter Flood November 20, 2023 - Contact: Jake O'Neill, Conservation Law Foundation, (617) 850-1709,...
Right whale - Regina WDC

North Atlantic right whale population has stabilized

WDC attends Ropeless Consortium and North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium WDC was in Canada this...
Moana, Marineland France

Orca Moana dies suddenly at Marineland

Twelve-year old orca, Moana has died suddenly at the Marineland Antibes theme park facility in...

Actor Stephen Fry backs WDC campaign

Actor, Stephen Fry has backed WDC latest campaign to stop the brutal Japanese dolphins hunts by urging his five million followers on Twitter to sign WDC’s petition to ban the annual dolphin hunt off the coast of Taiji, Japan.  

Our campaign exposes the true cruelty behind the methods used by the fishermen in Taiji. In his post on Twitter, Fry shared the link to the harrowing YouTube WDC campaign video wrote – “Help stop the horror behind the killing of dolphins in Taiji. Check out the shocking footage. Sign the petition.”