“I slowly became conscious of the animals’ point of view and recognized that much of what I was doing as a scientist did not square with my own moral standards.” The reader hasn’t gotten far in Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals before encountering this stunning revelation.
Date created: December 23, 2016
Last updated: April 24, 2024
Are you registered to vote? It is quick and easy to do so, and voting is a crucial way you can help animals. Fill in the form below for a step-by-step guide to getting registered at your current address.
Date created: March 28, 2018
Last updated: August 2, 2022
Scientists have reported that trampling by other walruses in a stampede likely caused the deaths of 131 walruses found on a beach in Alaska’s North Slope in August.
Date created: November 5, 2009
Last updated: January 17, 2020
Long-finned pilot whales have been hunted for human consumption in the Faroe Islands (a small Danish territory located between Scotland and Iceland in the North Atlantic) since the first human settlement of the islands.
Date created: December 10, 2013
Last updated: January 15, 2020
This story and others related to the impacts of military sonar on marine mammals are recounted in engaging detail by Joshua Horwitz in his upcoming book, War of the Whales, to be published by Simon and Schuster in July 2014. Josh focuses on two “characters” in the book: Ken Balcomb, a killer whale biologist in Washington state, and Joel. Ken has also studied beaked whales in the Bahamas and, through an astonishing set of coincidences, ended up embroiled in the struggle to protect whales from the growing cacophony of sonar, pile driving, shipping, and seismic exploration for oil and gas that is cluttering up their acoustic space below the waves.
Date created: May 29, 2014
Last updated: April 24, 2024
Date created: January 3, 2022
Last updated: January 3, 2022
The District of Columbia has passed a law to address the surging local market for goods that contribute to declines in endangered wildlife.
Date created: May 1, 2020
Last updated: January 18, 2024
The Watamu Marine Association (WMA) was established in 2007 in Kenya in order to bring together members from the community, tourism, and environmental sectors in the coastal resort town of Watamu to promote community development and empowerment, and to advocate for the protection and preservation of Watamu Marine National Park and Reserve.
Date created: February 19, 2013
Last updated: January 15, 2020
It is not uncommon that malfunctioning in watering valves or leaks of water bottles result in the accumulation of water in rodent cages (especially during holidays and on weekends), a circumstance that can have serious implications for the animals trapped in such quasi-flooded living quarters. In your own experience, what's a practicable and reliable solution to this problem?
Date created: May 24, 2009
Last updated: October 30, 2020
Wildlife has lost yet another champion. Wayne Lotter, 51, a vigorous leader in efforts to suppress wildlife crime, was murdered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on August 16.
Date created: January 4, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
With We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility, Dr. Michael Moore proves definitively that he is no ivory tower scientist. He speaks with passion about his decades-long research on whales and his fascination with these intriguing animals. At the outset of the book, Moore issues readers a challenge, admitting that he is hoping to convince us that the welfare and very survival of the fewer than 340 remaining North Atlantic right whales are in our hands.
Date created: April 20, 2022
Last updated: April 17, 2024
The Endangered Species Act continues to face attacks in Congress.
Date created: December 15, 2023
Last updated: April 17, 2024
Ocelots may have a better chance at survival in the United States, thanks to a June 26 settlement AWI and the Center for Biological Diversity reached with the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and th
Date created: September 1, 2017
Last updated: September 1, 2017
Whales, dolphins, and porpoises are categorized taxonomically in the order Cetacea. As mammals, cetaceans are warm-blooded, breathe air, give birth to live young, and nurse their offspring. They are also highly intelligent and social animals. There are over 80 extant species of cetaceans, categorized into two suborders: the toothed whales (odontocetes) and baleen whales (mysticetes). Sperm whales, orcas (killer whales), beaked whales, belugas, narwhals, porpoises, and dolphins are odontocetes, of which there are about 70 known species. Baleen whales are comprised of 14 species, including blue, fin, sei, Bryde’s, gray, right, bowhead, humpback, and minke whales.
Date created: September 23, 2011
Last updated: August 7, 2024
Animal welfare and conservation groups are advising major seafood buyers attending the 2013 European Seafood Exposition and Seafood Processing Europe Convention in Brussels this week to be aware that there are whalers in their midst, and that the seafood they are considering purchasing may be “tainted by the blood of whales”.
Date created: April 25, 2013
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Following a high-profile "Don't buy from Icelandic whalers” ad campaign on the Boston public transit system in March and April, animal protection and conservation organizations are now taking the message to the streets of New York City.
Date created: May 20, 2014
Last updated: February 2, 2022
A mobile billboard—funded by a coalition of US animal protection and conservation organizations—will take the message “Don’t Buy From Icelandic Whalers” to the streets of Boston this week.
Date created: March 13, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
As the Seafood Expo North America opens at the Boston Convention Center (March 16–18) animal protection and conservation organizations are warning the tens of thousands of international participants—from suppliers of seafood products and services to buyers—to watch out for whalers.
Date created: March 17, 2014
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Photographs (shown below) of an Icelandic whaling vessel dragging dead endangered fin whales to shore for processing were released today by Timothy Baker, an American whale-watching tourist.
Date created: August 20, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
Japan’s whaling underwent some dramatic changes in 2019, following that nation’s departure from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) after more than six decades of membership: Japan finally ended the pretense that it was conducting “research
Date created: March 25, 2020
Last updated: April 17, 2024
Following an undercover operation and federal investigation, trendy Santa Monica sushi restaurant, The Hump, was charged with serving meat from an endangered sei whale and consequently closed its doors on March 20.
Date created: July 9, 2010
Last updated: January 9, 2020
The "Whales Need US" coalition, an unprecedented joint effort of 20 US-based environmental, conservation and animal welfare organizations, representing more than 15 million people, today urged the Bush Administration to intensify its efforts to end commercial whaling.
Date created: January 21, 2009
Last updated: February 2, 2022
A coalition of international whale protection organizations today strongly condemned the start of Norway’s 2017 whaling season, which began on April 1. The coalition believes the hunt could result in the cruel slaughter of up to 999 minke whales, a self-allocated quota more than 100 higher than that set by the Norwegian government in 2016. In addition, 90 percent of the minke whales hunted by Norway’s whaling industry are females and almost all of them are pregnant, effectively nearly doubling the actual death toll and seriously impacting future generations of the species.
Date created: April 3, 2017
Last updated: February 7, 2022
Reminiscent of the Save the Whales days of the 70s and 80s, Earth Day 2010 saw a pod of whales and a mass of people converge on the National Mall in Washington D.C. to rally for whales.
Date created: July 9, 2010
Last updated: January 9, 2020
The 2023 commercial whaling seasons ended with over 800 whales killed, yet fewer than anticipated. Norwegian whalers killed 507 minke whales, falling short of the 1,000 quota.
Date created: December 15, 2023
Last updated: December 22, 2023
