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New Endangered Species App

A new children's app on endangered animals for schools and families has just been released and is now available to download. It covers 150 different...

Minke Whaling Starts Again In Iceland

WDCS can report today (Saturday April 28) that Icelandic minke whalers have taken their first whales of the season. The vessel, Halldor Sigurdsson IS landed...

Iceland To Resume Endangered Fin Whale Hunt

Conservation and animal welfare groups including WDCS have expressed concern over news that Iceland’s endangered fin whale hunt will resume this summer. The Icelandic newspaper Skessuhorn...

Mosquito Threat To Orcas In Captivity Revealed

WDCS, along with former SeaWorld orca trainers, John Jett and Jeff Ventre, has revealed newly-discovered evidence documenting the death of two orcas at SeaWorld facilities...

Rare White Orca Spotted Off Russia

Whale scientists working off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia have photographed and filmed a pure white male orca, or killer whale. One of...

Amazing Images Of All-white Orca Revealed

An amazing all-white mature male orca has been seen in the wild and here is an amazing picture of the whale.The sightings of the orca,...

WDCS Signs Agreement To Stop Whale Use In Cosmetics

The International Jojoba Export Council (IJEC) has signed an historic agreement this week with WDCS at Europe’s premier trade show for cosmetic ingredients (In-Cosmetics®) in...

Rescuers Working To Free Gray Whale

Rescuers off the coast of California, USA, are trying to free a grey whale who is tangled up in fishing line. Using a boat and specialist...

New IPhone App May Save Whales?

A new app for the iPad or iPhone which aims to help vessel collisions with rare right whales off the east coast of the United...
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Orcas versus humpbacks

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

Back To Work Again…

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

Happy New Year Kesslet !

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

Waiting For Some Action…

Hi Everyone, I'm in a state of limbo at the moment where not much seems...
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Working to Save Dolphins in Despair

A female and her calf being carried back to sea on the Cape photo: Reuters...

Going For Gold Next Time Kesslet?

Hi Everyone, Yesterday I had Kesslet and Charlie visiting Kessock in very silvery light, and...

Iceland – are they having a rethink on whaling?

According to the latest news out of Iceland, there is a potential for the government...

Bridging The Gap…

Hi Everyone, I'm without a car at the moment so limited to watching for dolphins...

Help Protect Scotland's Whales & Dolphins !

Hi Everyone, I was through at our Scottish Dolphin Centre on Tuesday taking some launch...

The Big Miracle…

Hi Everyone, You may have heard that there is a new film coming out starring...

Nice Trout Kesslet !

Hi Everyone, Oh well, that is the beginning of my 2012 dolphin research season with...

Back soon!

Hi everyone, We thought we'd let you know that Charlie will be away from his...