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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...

SeaWorld counters bad publicity with newspaper ads

SeaWorld has been buying up full page advertisements in newspapers across the US in an attempt to counter the growing backlash against its killer whale shows.  Revelations about mistreatment of killer whales, and the threats to trainers were exposed in the hit documentary film Blackfish, which was released earlier in the year.

The film looks in detail at the issues surrounding keeping killer whales in captivity, highlighting the boredom and stress that they suffer, and also documents the killing of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010 by one of the captive orcas, Tilikum.

Public feeling towards captive whale and dolphin shows has dramatically altered since the release of the film.  Recently a number of entertainers, including Heart, Barenaked Ladies and Willie Nelson, have all cancelled performances at SeaWorld.

One school in California decided not to go on its annual overnight field trip to the park and students spoke out against SeaWorld’s captivity shows.