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Decision to scrap protected marine areas in UK a backward step

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Decision to scrap protected marine areas in UK a backward step

By Danny Groves / 1st March 2023

A healthy planet needs a healthy ocean and that means protecting whales The UK Government’s decision to designate only three of five suggested highly protected…

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WDC takes action in bid to protect endangered orcas

By Danny Groves / 17th February 2023

A group of Southern Resident orcas Together with the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife, we have filed a petition in the US…

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Exported meat from vulnerable whales worth almost £18m reaches Japan

By Danny Groves / 10th February 2023

Icelandic whale meat offloading at Japanese port The largest shipment of fin whale meat from Iceland to Japan for 30 years has arrived in port…

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Success! Tidal turbine project that could harm dolphins is halted

By Danny Groves / 8th February 2023

Rissos dolphins off Bardsey Island credit WDC Following years of campaign work to halt a tidal turbine development in Wales that could seriously injure porpoises…

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Mystery surrounds large number of whales washing up in US

By Danny Groves / 2nd February 2023

Whale tail injured in collision with a vessel A number of whales have washed up on the shores of New Jersey and New York in…

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US government refuses to shield endangered right whales from lethal ship collisions

By Danny Groves / 23rd January 2023

The Biden administration in the US has denied an emergency petition that seeks to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from being struck and killed…

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