Whales and dolphins are known to grieve for their dead but Southern Resident orca J35, known as Tahlequah, carried her dead new-born in a record ordeal of 17 days, swimming 1,000 miles with her family.
Her tour of grief has been followed by people around the world since her calf died a short time after being born on July 24th.
An unprecedented attempt has been launched in the Pacific Northwest to save ailing Southern Resident orca Scarlet (J50), a young female who has been in poor condition throughout the summer. The Fisheries Department of the U.S.
Online video games platform Humble Bundle has announced further support for WDC's work to end the cruel practice of keeping whales and dolphins in captivity through its charity of the month programme.
Funds will be raised across a range of games, software and book bundles, and through the Humble store for the month of August. Humble Bundle’s unique system allows you to only pay what you want for a bundle and also choose how much goes to charity.
A computer simulator that resembles a video game could save the endangered St. Lawrence beluga whales. The simulator will help scientists to enter data about beluga whales and ships to evaluate and understand how much time each whale spends in the acoustic range of a vessel.
Iceland’s commercial hunt of minke whales has ended for this year.
The common minke whale is the main species targeted by Japan, Norway and Iceland when they undertake 'scientific' and/or commercial whaling.
We are delighted that travel industry giant, Thomas Cook has done the right thing and dropped SeaWorld in the United States and Loro Parque in Tenerife. This follows a three month ultimatum to improve welfare standards for the orcas and dolphins they hold.
We are delighted to announce that Game of Thrones star Jerome Flynn has agreed to become a WDC Patron.
Jerome is well-known for his role as skilled mercenary Bronn of the Blackwater in the global TV hit, Game of Thrones. He also starred in ITV’s Soldier Soldier and Ripper Street. Aside from acting both on TV and stage, he is a big animal lover and long-term supporter of WDC.
He is not only a passionate campaigner for whale and dolphin protection against the increasing threats they face but also raises awareness of the need for responsible whale watching in the wild.
In heartbreaking news from the Pacific Northwest, the Center for Whale Research has reported that a newborn calf has died less than an hour after being born. On Tuesday July 24th, the Center observed a new calf born in the endangered Southern Resident orca population to a member of J pod, Tahlequah (J35), a 20-year-old female. Sadly, a short time later the new b
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The FY2019 National Defense Authorization Act conference report was released by Congress yesterday, and it’s not great news for whales. The report includes a rider that weakens provisions in the US Marine Mammal Protection Act, but not to the extent the original rider had proposed.