Categories // Whale & Dolphin General News
Today new EU measures have come into place with the hope of reducing bycatch of endangered, threatened and protected species.
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Written by // Emily Condley Categories // Sea Safari
Our trips kicked off in July and 2019 is already turning out to be a corker!
Written by // James Robbins Categories // Survey & Sightings News
TSky, a Taiwanese technology company, have donated equipment for ORCA surveys.
On Sunday 30th June, Japan will be leaving the International Whaling Commission (IWC). A concerning decision which will see them conducting commercial whaling within its 200-mile Exclusive Zone and coastal waters.
Categories // Survey & Sightings News
A pilot trip aboard Celebrity Millennium saw ORCA Cruise Conservationists monitoring cetaceans in Alaska
Written by // Lucy Babey Categories // Whale & Dolphin General News
We are facing an ocean emergency that's putting our beloved whales, dolphins, porpoises and all marine life at risk.
A sad story from Scotland which saw a juvenile humpback whale entangled in fishing rope for months, resulting in a slow death
Japanese whaling vessels returned to port last week having killed 333 minke whales, supposedly in the name of science.
Written by // Lucy Babey Categories // ORCA Events
ORCA and CalMac launch Hebridean Minicruise, Oban to Castlebay and back, Wednesday 28 August 2019
Written by // Anna Bunney Categories // ORCA Events
The fifth year of the programme is hoping to see more animals than ever before!
ORCA Marine Mammal Surveyors recorded 1,604 and 23 confirmed species as they travelled round Canada on the Saga Sapphire!
Categories // Wildlife Officer Sightings
What a week it's been for Wildlife Officers on board the Pont-Aven!
41 new Marine Conservation zones are welcomed by the conservation sector but they need proper management and collaboration from the Government
Written by // James Robbins Categories // Whale & Dolphin General News
Sadly, large whales are hit by ships (‘ship strike’) globally, but this threat is poorly understood and under-reported.
87 belugas and 11 orcas are being freed from 'whale jails' where they were being kept for illegal sale to Chinese theme parks
