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Common dolphin

WDC takes ‘A Walk in the Park…with Animal Friends’

Longstanding WDC partner Animal Friends returns with season two of their podcast 'A Walk in...
Japanese whaling ship

Infamous whale slaughter ship docks for the final time

The whaling ship, Nisshin Maru has returned to the port of Shimonoseki for the final...
Sperm whale

Dominica announces new protections for sperm whales

Dominica has placed almost 800 square kilometers of sea off the west coast of the...
Porpoise dies after becoming entangled in fishing net

UK government rejects chance to protect whales and dolphins

The government has formally rejected almost all of the crucial recommendations made in a House...

Georgia Aquarium will no longer take whales or dolphins from the wild

In a dramatic U-turn, the Georgia Aquarium in the US has announced that it will no longer will take dolphins or whales caught in the wild. The move comes as the global public backlash against the keeping of whales and dolphins in captivity continues to grow.

WDC has been campaigning to prevent the aquarium importing 18 whales captured in Sea of Okhotsk, Russia and, following a US court decision to deny an import permit, the aquarium dropped these plans.

The new announcement by Georgia aquarium comes on the back of a decision by SeaWorld to end all orca breeding programmes this year, making this generation of captive orcas the last to be kept in SeaWorld’s tanks.

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