Posts Tagged ‘Risso’s dolphins’
We’re getting to know Risso’s dolphins in Scotland so we can protect them
Citizen scientists in Scotland are helping us better understand Risso’s dolphins by sending us their photographs. Risso’s dolphins are an amazing yet relatively little-known species. I’ve been lucky enough to spend time studying them off the west coast of Scotland over the last 13 years and I’ve come to recognise individuals and have enjoyed observing…
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Risso’s dolphins killed in latest Taiji hunt
Barely a couple of weeks since the massacre of almost 1,500 Atlantic white-sided dolphins in the Faroe Islands comes more horrifying news of dolphins being hunted, this time on the other side of the northern hemisphere. On 1st September the infamous annual hunt of dolphins began in the small Japanese coastal town of Taiji. Unlike…
Read MoreA dolphin researcher’s heartbreak as Risso’s dolphins targeted in brutal hunt
Despite the pandemic, one of the most infamous and vile dolphin hunts has been underway since the beginning of September and it will continue until April. For these six months, around 25 men from the town of Taiji in Japan will take to the water every day that weather permits, to hunt dolphins. Those they…
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