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Cetaceans

The latest news and comment on cetaceans

July 2024

  • Fin whale

    Australian government ‘deeply disappointed’ by Japan’s decision to expand commercial whaling target list

  • Bottlenose dolphins diving in and out of the water in Scotland

    Wildlife enthusiasts called on to help record dolphins and whales on UK coast

  • A humpback whale breaches near Iguana Island, Panama, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

    Two fishers rescued off New Hampshire after whale capsizes their boat

  • An elderly man with white hair and a beard being led in handcuffs by an official

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Supporters of arrested Sea Shepherd founder say parallels with Julian Assange are ‘disturbing’

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How to solve a mass stranding: what caused 77 healthy whales to die on a Scottish beach?

  • North Atlantic right whale seen off Ireland for first time in 114 years

  • World’s rarest whale may have washed up on New Zealand beach

  • Large pod of pilot whales almost wiped out after stranding on Orkney beach

June 2024

  • Children take part in a seawilding project in Scotland.

    The Great British Seaside
    From planting seagrass to spotting seals: how to help look after the UK’s coastline

  • FILE - Two Makah Indian whalers stand atop the carcass of a dead gray whale moments after helping tow it close to shore in the harbor at Neah Bay, Wash., May 17, 1999. Earlier in the day, Makah Indians hunted and killed the whale in their first successful hunt since voluntarily quitting whaling over 70 years earlier. The United States on Thursday, June 13, 2024 granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

    Native American tribe wins right to hunt gray whales off Washington coast

  • A pair of sperm whales visits the waters off New England on 25 May 2024.

    Unexpected number of whales currently swimming off the coast of New England

  • A dead whale about 20 metres long lies on its side on a tarmacked surface, which is covered in water and blood.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Iceland grants country’s last whaling company licence to hunt 128 fin whales

  • Low-flying drones could disrupt whale migration off Australia’s east coast, experts warn

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Save our seas: five ways to rewild and conserve the ocean

May 2024

  • Two small Korean girls and a woman stand in front of an aquarium as a white whale looks at them through the glass

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Free Bella’: campaigners fight to save lonely beluga whale from Seoul mall

    Five years after her last companion died and the aquarium’s owner pledged to free her, Bella still languishes in a tiny tank amid shops
  • BlueWhalespxiie

    First Dog on the Moon
    What if we could understand what blue whales are really saying

    Well … this is unexpected

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      Ice dives, walrus snaps and whale encounters: the man telling extreme stories of an Arctic at risk

    • ‘I’m a blue whale, I’m here’: researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence

    • The vast new whaling ‘mother ship’ that Japan hopes will revive a shrinking industry

April 2024

  • The orphaned two-year-old female orca calf swims in a lagoon near Zeballos, British Columbia, on 11 April.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Orca calf successfully returned to open water after bold rescue in Canada

    Two-year-old calf one step closer to reuniting with family group after tragic accident that left her stranded in remote lagoon
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