Tag: orcas

• Tuesday, June 18th 2024 - 11:58 UTC

  State of Cetaceans 2024, ORCA report in oceans worldwide

  

  Marine Conservation Charity ORCA’s “State of the Cetaceans 2024”, (*) report is a fascinating glimpse into how the world’s whales and dolphins are coping with human impacts on the ocean. It analyses the extraordinary 330,000 kilometers of marine surveys conducted by ORCA in 2023, recording 55,604 whales and dolphins in oceans worldwide from the Arctic to the Antarctic, the North and South Atlantic, and the Pacific to the Mediterranean.

• Monday, July 26th 2021 - 18:05 UTC

  Orcas sighted off the coast of Argentine province of Rio Negro

  

  A calf of killer whales only a few days old has been sighted for the first time off the Punta Bermeja area, on the Rio Negro coast, leading specialists to speculate that its parents would not be far away.

• Monday, April 5th 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  Orcas sighted off Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este

  

  The Uruguayan large-circulation daily El País has reported the sighting of orcas off the coast of Punta del Este.

• Friday, April 5th 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  Pressure on Russia to release juvenile whales in small pens; apparently to be sold to Chinese marine parks

  

  International pressure is growing for the Russian government to release nearly 100 juvenile whales which have been kept in small pens in the far east for seven months. French marine scientist Jean-Michel Cousteau and other experts are meeting government officials in Moscow. They plan to visit the so-called “whale jail” near Nakhodka on Saturday.

• Friday, February 22nd 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  Pools with orcas and belugas expose Russia's murky trade in supplying aquariums

  

  Dozens of orcas and beluga whales captured for sale to ocean aquariums have brought Russia's murky trade into the spotlight, but efforts to free them are blocked by government infighting.