What Is the Faroese Dolphin Hunt and Why It Must End Right now, as I write these lines, a grindadráp (also known as grind) is taking place on the Faroe Islands . Just one day after World Dolphin Day . On September 12, 2021 the world watched in horror as Sea Shepherd’s cameras captured the largest slaughter of dolphins on record: an entire pod of Atlantic white-sided dolphins was driven into a Faroese fjord and butchered. Reports confirmed 1,428 dolphins killed that day – t

Join our campaign Corals Without Borders. This may sound like a bureaucratic glitch, but scientists can’t move coral genetic material between countries fast enough to save the reefs. Coral science is ready to act, and now i's time to push politicians. While marine heatwaves decimate coral reefs across the planet, international law is failing to keep up . Coral scientists have developed tools to boost resilience against the climate crisis , including assisted gene flow (AGF) ,

How Aquariums and Dolphinariums Impact Dolphins, Orcas, and Marine Ecosystems In recent weeks the horror behind marine “theme parks” has been laid bare. Eleven-year-old Kamea has died at SeaWorld San Antonio, the 45th (!!!) orca to die under SeaWorld’s watch. And in Florida, a viral video showed a protected giant manta ray being hauled out of the Gulf of Mexico. State officials later confirmed the manta was captured under a special permit to supply SeaWorld’s park in Abu D

The most reckless experiment in human history. It sounds like science fiction, but it's terrifyingly real: a nation is preparing to mine the deepest ocean floor. This coming January, Japan will begin the world's first test of full-scale deep-sea mining near Minamitori Island in the western Pacific. Until now, the abyssal plains of the ocean have only been visited by scientists. But this project, spearheaded by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Japan Org