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Happy New Year Kesslet !

Hi Everyone, It was a bitterly cold but a lovely and sunny morning standing watching...

Proposal For Quotas To Save Whales Rejected By WDCS

WDCS has questioned suggestions by US researchers writing in the journal, Nature that the introduction...

Belugas Of Cook Inlet Continue To Decline

The beluga population of Cook Inlet, Alaska - recently re-listed as endangered - has fallen...

Orca Keet Faces Stressful Relocation

WDCS has recently become aware of the impending transfer of the orca Keet from Sea...

Whale-friendly Lunches: Good For Kids, Great For Whales

Does your school serve 'whale-friendly'* lunches? We know that you care about conservation and wouldn't...

WDCS Kids In Südamerika

Auch in Südamerika helfen Kinder Walen und Delfinen. Durch das Grenzgebiet der Länder Peru, Kolumbien...

Back To Work Again…

Hi Everyone, Well, here we are with one week of 2012 behind us and the...
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Orcas versus humpbacks

Occasionally accounts come our way of observations on whales that are unusual and very interesting....

Dolphin Consumption On Rise In Poorer Nations

Dolphin for dinner is becoming more common as people in poorer nations struggle to put...

New Year Dolphin Slaughter Begins In Taiji

Although the fishermen in Taiji took a two week break from hunting and killing dolphins...

Whaling Vs. Whale Watching

Iceland Review has conducted interviews with Konrád Eggertsson, a whaler, and Hördur Sigurbjarnarson, running an...

Kinofilm: Mein Freund Der Delfin

Wer hat diesen Film schon gesehen? Es geht um einen Delfin mit dem Namen „Winter“,...

Every whale and dolphin - safe & free

There are 4 vital ways that we are fighting for the survival of whales and dolphins.

Together we can:

Corky, an orca (killer whale) in captivity at SeaWorld

End captivity

Whales and dolphins have a right to live free and healthy lives. These highly intelligent individuals should not suffer for human entertainment.

Japanese whaler with harpoon hunting minke whales

Stop whaling

Commercial whaling is illegal. And yet, every year, Japan, Norway and Iceland kill around 1,500 whales.

Humpback whale in Antarctica

Create healthy seas

Commercial fishing, oil and gas drilling, and shipping are threatening the lives of whales and dolphins.

Common dolphin trapped in net

Prevent deaths in nets

Hundreds of thousands of whales and dolphins are accidentally caught and killed in fishing gear every year.