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Marine Wildlife
Carole Carlson
Marine WildlifeDr. Carole Carlson, a valiant advocate for the conservation of whales and their marine environment, died on March 24 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, of pancreatic cancer. She was 69. Carole was...
The Endangered Species Act and Wildlife Under Assault
Endangered Species, Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeAn influential faction of the 115th Congress is expressing a clear animosity toward animal protection measures. Emboldened, perhaps, by an administration that appears sympathetic to their aims, this faction is waging...
Groups Seek to Protect Imperiled Vaquita Porpoises Through US Ban on Imports of Mexican Seafood Caught with Dangerous Nets
Press ReleaseMay 18, 2017Marine WildlifeConservation groups petitioned the US National Marine Fisheries Service today to ban imports of seafood caught with gillnets in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California in an effort to save the...
Whale Protection Advocates Condemn Start of Norwegian Whale Hunt
Press ReleaseApril 3, 2017Marine WildlifeA coalition of international whale protection organizations today strongly condemned the start of Norway’s 2017 whaling season, which began on April 1. The coalition believes the hunt could result in...
AWI in China to Address Cetacean Captivity
Marine WildlifeDr. Naomi Rose, AWI’s marine mammal scientist, traveled to China in December to visit and evaluate several captive marine mammal facilities. She also gave two public presentations in Chengdu, one...
Hawaii Resort Nixes Captive Dolphin Plan
Marine WildlifeIn a sure sign of changing times, a resort development on Oahu has abandoned plans to include a captive dolphin attraction at its facility. Atlantis Ko Olina (a new addition...
Requiem for Two Iconic Orcas
Marine WildlifeTilikum, the 12,000-pound male orca at SeaWorld Orlando who was featured in the documentary Blackfish in 2013, was probably born in 1980, give or take a year. Ever since he killed his...
Vaquita: On the Brink
Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeTwo years ago, scientists estimated that only 100 vaquita porpoises remained in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California. In April 2015, as vaquitas continued to die due to entanglement in fishing...
Alexey Yablokov
Marine WildlifeDr. Alexey Yablokov, described as Russia’s “environmental knight” and as the “grandfather of Russian ecology,” passed away on January 10 at the age of 83. Dr. Yablokov authored over 500...
Eating the Ocean
Marine WildlifeAt its heart an ethnography, Eating the Ocean, by gender and culture professor Elspeth Probyn, is a challenging and unexpected contribution to the growing “food politics” genre. Although focused on questions...