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Southern Resident whales

Ambitious plan to free captive orca Lolita announced

The new owner of the Miami Seaquarium in the US has announced that it is...

Trade sanctions announced after Mexico fails to protect near extinct porpoise

The international body behind the treaty that protects endangered plants and animals from the threats...

WDC exposes failure of Government scheme to protect whales and dolphins from net deaths

Following our investigations, we have revealed that a UK Government scheme to protect whales and...

First cases of bird flu in dolphins discovered in the UK

The UK Government has announced that two dolphins and a harbour porpoise have died from...

Orca from British Isles resident population found dead

WDC is very sad to hear from colleagues at the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust that Lulu, a member of the West Coast Community and the British Isles’ only resident orca pod, has been found dead on the island of Tiree in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland.

Lulu was identified from her distinctive saddle and eye patch markings. A post-mortem has revealed that she died after becoming entangled in fishing ropes.

The most well-known member of the pod is a male orca known as John Coe (below). Sadly, there have been no new calves seen in the group in recent years, which is thought to now number less than 10 individuals.

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About George Berry

George is a member of WDC's Communications team and website coordinator.