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Marine Wildlife
Whaling Harpoons Iceland’s Image as a Whale-Watching Capital
Press ReleaseAugust 20, 2015Marine WildlifePhotographs (shown below) of an Icelandic whaling vessel dragging dead endangered fin whales to shore for processing were released today by Timothy Baker, an American whale-watching tourist. Hoping to see...
Animal Welfare Institute Announces 2015 Christine Stevens Wildlife Award Winners
Press ReleaseAugust 19, 2015Marine Wildlife, Terrestrial WildlifeThe Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) announced today the winners of its annual Christine Stevens Wildlife Award. Established in 2006, the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award provides grants of up to $10,000 to...
SPAR Norway Under Fire for Key Role in Advancing Norwegian Whaling
Press ReleaseJuly 15, 2015Marine WildlifeA coalition of environmental groups released today a new brief, “Convenience Kills,” detailing the whale meat sales of SPAR Norway—part of the international SPAR convenience store chain. The groups are calling...
Conservationists Rally Outside Mexican Embassy to Save Vaquita Porpoise
Press ReleaseJuly 9, 2015Marine WildlifeLocal conservationists rallied outside the Mexican Embassy today in support of the vaquita marina, the world’s smallest and most endangered porpoise, found only in Mexico’s Gulf of California. Participating organizations and...
BREACH
Marine WildlifeIn the summer of 2013, a young filmmaker from California named Jonny Zwick set out on a three-month journey around Iceland, intent on understanding the contradiction that makes the country...
A View from Inside the IWC’s Scientific Committee
Marine WildlifeFor 16 years—the past two for AWI—Dr. Naomi Rose has been a member of the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) Scientific Committee. She is an invited participant on the sub-committees on...
AWI Petitions to Have Thorny Skate Listed Under ESA
Marine WildlifeAWI and Defenders of Wildlife filed a petition on May 28 with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to list the Northwest Atlantic population of the thorny skate (Amblyraja radiata)...
Beluga Newborns Die at US Aquariums
Marine WildlifeOn June 5, a 3-week-old female beluga at Georgia Aquarium died. Just over a month later, another 3-week-old female beluga—born prematurely—died at SeaWorld San Antonio. The Georgia Aquarium birth had...
Ontario Says No to More Orcas in Captivity
Marine WildlifeOntario has become the first province in Canada to ban the breeding, purchase and sale of orcas. The new law, titled the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to...
Saving the Vaquita: Mexico Acts, but Is It Enough?
Endangered Species, Marine WildlifeA tragedy is unfolding in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California. Fatal entanglements in shrimp and fish nets—many of them cast by poachers—are driving the world’s smallest cetacean to extinction. In...